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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by elithrar on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:02AM (#4227982)
> ... making them basically impossible to recycle, which is the real story here.

I would argue that they are "much more difficult" to recycle by anyone other than Apple.

They can still be recycled.

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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by Blara on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:42AM (#4228081)
Do you have a source for that? I've heard that the recycling company that Apple uses in fact does not recycle the newer "glued models".
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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by josteink on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @03:46AM (#4228270)
If it can only be done by Apple, it is safe to assume that in 99%+ of the cases it wont be done.
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