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Environmental impact and sustainability

While Apple celebrates recycling, the reality is that 60% of e-waste ends up in landfills, and even when a product is recycled, most of the energy and material resources used to create it cannot be recovered.

Only a fraction of the materials in a typical gadget can be recovered, and it is just as likely to end up in a landfill somewhere in Asia or Africa. Separating electronics and other kinds of consumer waste is highly labor intensive, with thousands of different kinds of plastics alone. This is why the majority of recycled material is sent to China, which does not have minimum wage laws that make recycling unprofitable in Western countries.

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