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Re:Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max by CharlesW on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:11AM (#25387329)
> And regular AirPods are definitely a throw-away product…

Please don't — they're recyclable[1]. Recyclers wouldn't normally make money from recovering recyclable materials, but Apple pays[2] to make up the difference.

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in

[2] https://onezero.medium.com/what-really-happens-to-airpods-wh...

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Re:Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max by arvinsim on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:14AM (#25387360)
Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714880

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Re:Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max by lylecheatham on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:22PM (#25388860)
Yeah the plastic isn't recyclable, but e-waste is full of precious metals and structural metals like aluminum that can easily be recycled.
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Re:Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max by sudosysgen on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:00PM (#25390184)
To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if there's less things if value in an airpod than it's worth. At the point where recycling in and of itself might be more polluting than mining the 0.02g of precious metals and the gram or two of other metals. The structure in airpods is mostly plastic and glue.
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