[OSX-Users] Re: getting rid of old iphones

[Philip Boulain]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:15 +0100, Neil Broderick wrote:
> Out of curiosity what do the various companies do with old phones. I would not have thought that once
> recycling costs were taken into account there was 100 pounds worth of stuff in an old iphone. And reselling it
> seems odd given that it cannot run ios 4. Hence I have no idea why it is worth 100 pounds to anyone. 

Presumably they can get a reasonable value of gold and copper out of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_recyclers#Electronic_waste_substances

Possibly also random grants for being "green". Must be profitable given
the number of them advertising on TV.


(Heck, they even have enough spare advertising budget to spam Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_recycling#Recyclers
)

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