The process is inherently a waste of resource, you can make it as efficient as you want, selling airpods with glued batteries, 200 millions phones per year, pushing people to continuously upgrade, &c. is an unsustainable waste
This is like the aviation industry, rolls royce making their engine 5% more efficient over a decade is nice, if in the meantime we multiplied the number of flights by 30 we're still fucked
So yes apple removed some plastic wraps and uses a bit of recycled aluminum, its all marketing, carbon neutrality isn't a thing, green capitalism isn't a thing, it's a feel good marketing slogan for 30 years old techbros buying a new apple watch every 9 months
Well you're making my point... when the tiny ass battery inevitably fails after being cycled 1-3 times per day every day you have to get rid of the whole otherwise perfectly fine working product because no one can swap the battery in an economically viable way
How efficient is that ? You could have a screw in battery taking the same amount of space and allowing a basically unlimited life, but I guess I'm not a "genius™"
Just so you know this is how e waste is "recycled":
Yes I’m sure a 1 pound set of headphones would have been comfortable hanging on your ears and out of all of the things that are “destroying the planet”, I’m sure that AirPods are a bigger culprit than anything - including all of the Android phones that get thrown away because they never see an update.
This is like the aviation industry, rolls royce making their engine 5% more efficient over a decade is nice, if in the meantime we multiplied the number of flights by 30 we're still fucked
So yes apple removed some plastic wraps and uses a bit of recycled aluminum, its all marketing, carbon neutrality isn't a thing, green capitalism isn't a thing, it's a feel good marketing slogan for 30 years old techbros buying a new apple watch every 9 months