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Apple’s Liam has a very particular set of skills with regards to recycling

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So, we know that Royal Caribbean can program a mean mechanical arm into its Anthem of the Seas ship. It turns out that Apple can do some magic of its own and build a mechanical arm to help save the darn world.Meet Liam. He’s designed to extract the precious, potentially hazardous materials from your old iPhone. Suction cups and claws click away to lop off the display, swivel away screws and ...

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There’s gold in them thar phones! Apple pulls a (literal) ton of gold out of old hardware

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Yesterday we found ourselves poking around Apple’s environmental-efforts FAQ, after learning that the company had possibly slipped up and publicly described OS X as “MacOS.” Was this the start of a new branding initiative? We still don’t know (and Apple has since changed the text to read “OS X”), but upon looking a little further we’re discovering some other interesting information here, as the new Apple Environmental Responsibility Report boasts some impressive figures on the sheer amount of raw ...

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Apple Watch recycling program offers nothing in exchange

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Not interested in hitting the marketplace with that Apple Watch you’re not hot on anymore? Maybe you’ve dinged the case one time too many. Well, you can take one for the green team and recycle it through one of Apple’s partners. But you won’t be getting any gift cards back your way.

Apple’s recycling program was updated to allow customers to recycle their Watches today, but unlike an iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC or smartphone trade-in, your Apple Watch will be sent the way of the iPod and the other older Apple devices.

The company contracts with three recycling companies to handle the iPhones and iPads, the computers and the other devices: in order, they are SoftBank-owned Brightstar, PowerON Services and Sims Recycling Solutions. The other devices are not eligible for Apple Store Gift Cards like the other devices are. Hell, even the iPod gets some customers somewhere — if it’s not an iPod shuffle, they can trade it in and get 10 percent off a new one.

So, if your Apple Watch is short of smashed up, perhaps you might just go for the Swappa or eBay route after all. Or maybe you’ll just wait it out until Apple gives you a little more incentive to avoid the landfill. After all, the company can definitely change things up in the future and we don’t know what the rationale behind the poor offer.

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