Why Apple refurbished? Sustainably relieve the environment

Rare earth

do you know the term

Rare earths are valuable raw materials. There are 17 in number of them. Rare earths are only used in very small amounts, but without them, some things wouldn't work. Whether LEDs, smartphones / iPhones , notebooks / MacBooks , computers / iMacs , electric motors and many other high-tech products. Most manufacturers are supplied with the rare earths from China. Seltner metals are not rare in themselves, but they only occur in small quantities everywhere. The mining of rare earths is very complex and unfortunately often problematic for our environment. Of course, there are regulations for mining metals all over the world, but these are often not complied with. Mining the metals works with acids that wash the metals out of the boreholes, so the resulting waste products often enter the groundwater and poison it.

What we can do? What you can do?

Recycling instead of promoting.

If you buy refurbished devices, you protect the environment, resources and your wallet. Use the devices until they really are no longer good, try to repair the devices instead of buying a new one right away, or decide on a used device . Even if you dispose of a broken device properly, it is too laborious and too expensive for most manufacturers to remove the rare earths from the old devices and reuse them. This is where the reprocessing of the devices comes into play, in which older models are processed and cleaned so that they can be used for many more years.
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Refurbished is as good as new, cheaper than new and better for the environment, if that's not enough of an argument.