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Apple takes it back.


Apple has launched a free take-back program that offers customers in the 48 contiguous Adjacent or touching. Contrast with fragmentation. See contiguous file.  United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  the opportunity to recycle re·cy·cle  
tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles
1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment.

2. To start a different cycle in.

3.
a.
 their obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed,
     2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447.
 computers, regardless of the manufacturer, when they purchase a new Mac.

When customers choose to participate in Apple's recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.  program, either through the company's online store or at its retail locations, Apple will send them an e-mail with instructions and labels for free shipping and recycling. Customers then package their equipment and attach the label provided.

Apple says that all of the equipment it receives through the program will be recycled domestically and that no hazardous material will be shipped overseas.

Apple's recycling programs have processed more than 21 million pounds of electronics worldwide since 1994. The company continues to offer a free iPod recycling program through its U.S. retail stores and operates a free drop-off recycling service at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., for used computer systems and home electronics.
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Title Annotation:ELECTRONICS RECYCLING; Apple Computer Inc.
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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