Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year
Step 1: design iPhones to be not repairable.<p>Step 2: determine it costs too much to repair &quot;broken&quot; iPhones (see step 1).<p>Step 3: Burn the whole lot down for precious metals.<p>What an enormous win for the environment and recycling! There are plenty of companies that will already do step 3, but pretty much nobody other than Apple has the opportunity to do something about the vastly more important step 2.