I'm not sure I understand your comment here? Are you referring to the end of your MacBooks' life, or the beginning? It's somewhat ambiguous. Assuming you are r

I'm not sure I understand your comment here? Are you referring to the end of your MacBooks' life, or the beginning? It's somewhat ambiguous. Assuming you are referring to end of life process: Apple's kit sold as refurb is done from their incoming returns — faulty, or otherwise unwanted, systems. Everything sent to them as a trade-in isn't handled by Apple at all: it's contracted out to third-party companies. (This likely applies to their recycling programme also, but I've not looked into it) At least: these things certainly used to be the case — and there have been a whole bunch of articles online that support this, over the years. I would love to see evidence to the contrary if things have changed? — But like I said: I'm not sure I understand your comment, so maybe my points here are irrelevant.