>In the end any reasons Apple might have to want them destroyed are just because they don't have to face many of the externalities of dealing with their residues because they ship them to thirld world countries, and they also don't pay many of the externalities of producing new hardware because they produce it in a country with poor regulations.
You can create a policy to price the externalities of recycling the electronic device (and that may be a necessary policy), but to be clear, it will be shared between Apple and the consumer through higher-prices - which will impact the poor disproportionally. Maybe that's a good thing, but I always find it interesting that people just point the finger at the manufacturer and not the consumer that ultimately buys the products and tosses it (usually without properly recycling it). It's the same kind of garbage as trying to blame Exxon for extracting petroleum and ignoring the SUV in your driveway.
>In any sustainable system Apple should either be the first interested in repairing those devices or forced to do it.
You don't even know what's wrong with these devices.
You can create a policy to price the externalities of recycling the electronic device (and that may be a necessary policy), but to be clear, it will be shared between Apple and the consumer through higher-prices - which will impact the poor disproportionally. Maybe that's a good thing, but I always find it interesting that people just point the finger at the manufacturer and not the consumer that ultimately buys the products and tosses it (usually without properly recycling it). It's the same kind of garbage as trying to blame Exxon for extracting petroleum and ignoring the SUV in your driveway.
>In any sustainable system Apple should either be the first interested in repairing those devices or forced to do it.
You don't even know what's wrong with these devices.