but my friends in the electronics recycling industry tell me they have no way of recycling aluminum that has glass glued to it like Apple did with both this machine and the recent iPad.
I took this to mean that recycling was essentially impossible (by Apple or anyone else).
Well, as you basically admit below, the economics and motivations of most recyclers are not going to be the same as Apple. In any case, this doesn't mean that they won't take any aluminum that has ever had glass glued to it. It just means that they won't take something with the glass still glued to it.
I'll bet you $1000 that I could get the screen glass off of a Retina Macbook Pro with a hammer and an angle grinder or another common shop tool. (You supply the Macbook.) Most anything I can do inconveniently and dangerously at a hackerspace with an ordinary shop tool could be done with greater safety and lower unit cost with an appropriate custom tool.
Perhaps Apple can indeed figure out a recycling strategy. I doubt they will spend any time on it unless prompted by adverse publicity (like this article is generating).
So you don't know, and neither does your source. All you have is supposition, for which you leave yourself an out.
I took this to mean that recycling was essentially impossible (by Apple or anyone else).
Well, as you basically admit below, the economics and motivations of most recyclers are not going to be the same as Apple. In any case, this doesn't mean that they won't take any aluminum that has ever had glass glued to it. It just means that they won't take something with the glass still glued to it.
I'll bet you $1000 that I could get the screen glass off of a Retina Macbook Pro with a hammer and an angle grinder or another common shop tool. (You supply the Macbook.) Most anything I can do inconveniently and dangerously at a hackerspace with an ordinary shop tool could be done with greater safety and lower unit cost with an appropriate custom tool.
Perhaps Apple can indeed figure out a recycling strategy. I doubt they will spend any time on it unless prompted by adverse publicity (like this article is generating).
So you don't know, and neither does your source. All you have is supposition, for which you leave yourself an out.
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