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News:Apple offers free recycling of its products worldwide

 Apple organization is offering to reuse its items for free globally, and has included even third-party items like cell mobile phones and PCs in the system in some nations.

The organization said on its remodeled ecological liability page that Apple organization suppliers will take back Apple organization items for “free, accountable reuse.”

A spokesperson for Apple organization verified Thursday that the system would be available globally.

The statement ahead of Earth Day on Wednesday offers store gift certificates, if the old item is found to be recycleable, for use against new buys at Apple organization online and physical shops. If the item cannot be reprocessed, Apple organization will reuse it at no cost to the user.

The organization said on its website that it had also set up reuse programs in places and college grounds in 95 percent of the nations where its items are sold, redirecting more than 421 thousand pounds (191 thousand kilograms) of devices from dumps since 1994. It has also gathered and reprocessed devices from other providers for reuse.

 Under the new system, the organization is providing, depending on the nation, to also reuse Apple organization battery power besides cell cellular phones and even pc systems and displays from other providers at no cost to the users. There are variations by nation, but at the minimum amount every Apple organization retail outlet will take back Apple organization items for 100 % free and responsible reuse, the spokesperson had written in an email.

In Australia, for example, Apple organization is providing 100 % free reuse to consumers and small company customers pc systems, monitors, iPod and iPad devices, and cell cellular phones and side-line devices from any manufacturer, with a restriction of a maximum of one pc, one monitor and side-line pc devices, while in South america and Costa Rica, Apple organization appears to be providing 100 % free reuse only on “Apple-branded electronics.”

Apple has signed up with contractors in various countries to manage and manage the system and to reuse the unwanted devices. In China and some other markets in Asia it has tied with Li Tong Group for the reuse of the used items.

“We believe we must be accountable for every Apple organization product at every stage of its use,” had written Lisa Fitzgibbons, Apple’s vice chairman of ecological projects. The organization on Monday also updated its website to include latest information on its ecological projects. Every one of the business's data centers, for example, is powered entirely by clean sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy, Fitzgibbons said.