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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by Spooky23 on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @10:38AM (#4229369)
Why should I change my business process to make Apple more money? I'm not hauling thousands of devices to Apple -- particularly if I can save money by using any of a half dozen competitors.

I have contracts with a half dozen recycling vendors who take my junk and dispose of them in a manner deemed acceptable by us. Some of them even pay us to take certain products.

A "shiny EPEAT certification" means that I can call any of the thousands of recycling vendors in the United States and get my gear hauled off and disposed of in a sustainable and ethical manner, and at a reasonable price. No African children are smelting wires from equipment originating from my company. Memory from my Dell devices is recovered and resold. Batteries from my Thinkpads are dissembled and recycled.

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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by greedo on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @02:47PM (#4230715)
So you perform audits of the recycling firms that you use?

I get the impression from the tone of your reply that even if Apple were to continue achieving EPEAT that you still wouldn't buy them.

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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by greedo on Friday July 13, 2012 @02:41PM (#4241210)
Oh, and following up on this because of Apple's change of heart in paying EPEAT for approval. Are you going to change your purchasing policy now?
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