You can still send non-functioning items back to Apple to be recycled if you want. You can take it an Apple store or go through the mail-in process. They tear them apart and salvage the parts.
They accept Apple branded computers for recycling if it has no trade in value (they'll try to get you an offer if it has any value). I have recycled damaged apple computers at the store before without trading in.
If the issues with it aren't too obvious you can trade it into Apple claiming it's in good condition. That's ethical as far as I'm concerned given the issue is their own fault.
I was thinking more about what happens when parts fail, especially if you're nowhere near an Apple retailer. I used to be able to swap out disks and RAM with my MacBook Pro. Not any more.
Well I have a broken Apple Pencil and now way to repair it or at least more cheaply replace it. The nearest Apple store is hours away (and another few hours of queuing up waiting for temperature measurements of all customers) and sending it in is not allowed.They did tell on the phone in a roundabout way they would replace it for about half the cost.
Off topic but Apple don’t really mind if you buy a new one and then return it after a week once your old one is fixed. Apple support even told my father to do this.
Maybe I do not understand your point, but can you go with a broken Apple laptop , without a schedule to shopping mall, have someone test it, tell you a diagnose and how much will it cost, ifv you decide you want a new one would the shop offer you money for the working parts of your Apple laptop( Apple is trying to make this illegal, reusing parts)
Doesn't Apple repair the M1 Macbooks if you take it to the Apple Store? From what I've understood, the macbook repairability issue is more to do with Apple's pricing and self-repair than the device becoming e-waste.
Apple also, I think, offers trade-in for the devices, recycling the components and preventing them from becoming e-waste if the device is a total loss.
I'm not sure I understand your comment here? Are you referring to the end of your MacBooks' life, or the beginning? It's somewhat ambiguous.
Assuming you are referring to end of life process:
Apple's kit sold as refurb is done from their incoming returns — faulty, or otherwise unwanted, systems.
Everything sent to them as a trade-in isn't handled by Apple at all: it's contracted out to third-party companies. (This likely applies to their recycling programme also, but I've not looked into it)
At least: these things certainly used to be the case — and there have been a whole bunch of articles online that support this, over the years. I would love to see evidence to the contrary if things have changed?
— But like I said: I'm not sure I understand your comment, so maybe my points here are irrelevant.
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