Recycling: it’s important if we want to keep Captain Planet happy. And we definitely want to keep him happy because he can fly and shoot fire out of his hands. I don’t want to be on his bad side! At the bottom of this post is a video from The Fully Charged Show that takes a detailed look at Daisy, a robotic system developed by Apple to dissemble and recycle the parts from any of 23 different models of iPhone. Two Daisy systems exist in the world, together capable of recycling 2.4 million iPhones per year.
The four major steps of disassembly are screen removal, battery removal, punching all the screws out, then removing all the individual phone modules. By recapturing the resources from some of the 2.24 billion iPhones currently in existence, Apple aims to reduce its need for mined materials and plans to produce phones using 100% recycled cobalt by 2025. The company’s long-term goal is to produce all Apple products entirely from recycled and renewable materials.
The process is actually pretty fascinating, particularly the battery removal. The battery is first blast frozen with -80°C air, then bashed out of the phone case with a couple of quick actuation arm flips. Not how I imagined they’d be removed, but when it doubt, whack it a few times – that’s always been one of my mottos.
[via TechEBlog]
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