Yeah, this is a problem with how many recyclers sell their services. What they sell to businesses is something like "we dispose of your device and securely shred your data" beside some picture of physically shredded hard drives... but reality is often something more like "we have a kid run DBAN on it and then flip it on eBay".

Recyclers are going to have to have to make it worthwhile to the businesses they source their product from, and be a little bit more upfront about it, if they want to recycle these devices. What they want to do is whine to Apple so they can continue to go behind their customer's backs like they do now with every other device.