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Originally Posted by teh603
Apple's had issues with green certification for a while now. None of their iOS devices have removable batteries, which means you technically can't get rid of them. Sure you can (illegally) throw them in the trash, but that's about it. Same with the Macbook Air.
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I've often wondered how many modern devices are able to be sold in the EU, where it's a legal requirement of EU law that devices have removeable batteries, because batteries have to be separately recycled, due to the nasty poisonous metals they contain. And yet despite this law, we have pretty much all most portable devices, it seems, from Kindles to iPhones, sold with non-removable batteries. There must be some loophole in the law which allows this, but I don't know what it is. Perhaps it only applies to things manufactured in the EU.