>Apple is leading the way and using recycled materials, avoiding plastic, becoming carbon neutral etc. How is avoiding plastic better? If you mean by making p

>Apple is leading the way and using recycled materials, avoiding plastic, becoming carbon neutral etc. How is avoiding plastic better? If you mean by making phone bodies out of metal, that's not better for the environment. It takes a LOT more energy to make things out of metal than plastic, and even though metal is recyclable, that too takes a LOT of energy (high melting point), and for a small item like a phone seems rather unlikely anyway. Plastic is recyclable too, it just isn't done much because people don't want to and it costs too much. >It makes sense and stops being a problem when the entire product is recyclable and/or uses recycled material in the first place. Phones are not "recyclable", and likely never will be. There's far too many different materials in them, which can't be readily separated.