Remember, its reduce, reuse, and recycle in that order for a reason. Companies like Apple and Microsoft love to claim they are green because they put money int

Remember, its reduce, reuse, and recycle in that order for a reason. Companies like Apple and Microsoft love to claim they are green because they put money into recycling old hardware. Except their business model for hardware revolves entirely around Increasing consumption and not reducing it. Its cheaper and better for the environment to maintain electronics than it is to replace them every few years and recycle them. Recycling is far from 100%, especially with electronics. Its not like steel or aluminum where you can just toss scrap into a crucible and get pure ingots on the other end ready to be worked into something useful.