Apple Will Recycle Your Old Computer

Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

August 6, 2008 • 2:24 pm PDT
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When you purchase a new Mac or Mac monitor, Apple will help you recycle your old computer for free. (The old one doesn't have to be a Mac.) This is kind of amazing because, as we once told you, the amount of E-waste we create is disastrously massive. Granted, it's not an all-encompassing solution to the problems of technological trash, but recycling old computers is infinitely better than not recycling them.

Thanks, Zach.

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