Things that everyone seems to be forgetting * Apple makes thin, light, durable products. Reduce > Recycle. * Raw materials are a small amount of the embodied

Things that everyone seems to be forgetting * Apple makes thin, light, durable products. Reduce > Recycle. * Raw materials are a small amount of the embodied energy in electronics. The microchips themselves constitute many times the embodied energy. Again, reduce > recycle. * As others have pointed out, Apple didn't do this because any of their newly-released products weren't eligible. Putting it all together, Apple did this to send a message to EPEAT: "Disassembly isn't the end-all be-all of green." Looks like EPEAT caved.