Apple launches iPod recycling discount

Posted on Saturday, June 04 2005 @ 1:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Apple announced a iPod recycling program which will offer users a ten percent discount if they buy a new iPod at one of the company's 100 retail stores in the United States. To be eligible for the offer people will need to bring in a standard iPod, iPod mini or iPod photo and use the discount the same day.

The move should appease critics of Apple's environmental record, who protested outside its headquarters during an annual shareholder meeting in April. Inside the meeting, a representative of an environmentally oriented mutual fund questioned Apple CEO Steve Jobs specifically about the Mac maker's recycling program.

More info at CNET

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