What do you do with your old iPhone after you've upgraded to the shiny new, best iPhone on the market? Some trade-in their old handset for the new one. Others try to sell it themselves. Or if you've got an older device, you may just give it back to Apple to recycle. But does your iPhone actually get recycled if you do this. This report suggests that it doesn't.
In what reads like a plot of an Ocean's flick, over 99,000 iPhones which were supposed to meet their maker (quite literally) in the recycling shredders, found themselves on a secret detour to the grey markets of China. This little escapade was courtesy of employees at GEEP Canada, a partner of Apple’s recycling program. These “recycled” iPhones were not meant for resale; they were supposed to be destroyed to recover precious materials.
