Apple Ships Green
Leafygreen.info is not my day job, as some of you may know. In fact, I’m a Network/Systems Admin and I use a Mac. I love Apple’s products and stand by them except for things like what you will read and see below. I needed to order a few mini display adapter to VGA for connecting new iMacs to a projector and I ordered them via Apple’s service center. If you ever brought your computer to an Apple Store, this is what they do for parts and iPod/iPhone replacements.
Anyway, the parts I ordered are about 5 inches long and weigh maybe 3 ounces. They shipped them in one box as you can see below but what a waste of packaging. Apple claims to be all green, with the MacBooks, the recycling your old stuff, the you name it, but jeeeez, this is kind of bullshit. Someone needs to fix this waste.
This was not a freak incident either, this has happened to me a few times before, but for some reason, it really bothered me last week.
So what we have is a big box with foam,a sheet of paper and three air bubble mailers. Inside the mailers was another sheet of paper and the adapters.
On a good note, I used the box and foam to ship back my SIGG bottles (all three) since they lied and their bottles had BPA.
Maybe I should change the post title to SIGG and APPLE FAIL.
Sorry for the non product review, but I figured this story had to be told. What do you think?
3 Comments
Stephanie
September 21, 2009 at 10:26 am
Kat
October 2, 2009 at 8:31 am
CI
October 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Definitely overkill. You’d think Apple would be better about these things.
I often get frustrated too with the ridiculous overkill of packaging material. At least if it's paper or peanuts you can reuse it, but the stupid one-use bubble mailers are horrible.
I'm glad I read this post because I hadn't heard about the SIGG BPA thing. I have two bottles with the old linear, and will be sending them back for replacement. I can't say I remember SIGG ever advertising that their (previous) bottles were BPA free. Perhaps people just assumed that since they were not plastic, why would they have BPA? It may not have been a good assumption, because thinking about it BPA is still widely used in the lining of food cans. Oh well. At least they are making the effort to replace peoples bottles, I just hope that the overwhelming flux of old bottles they get don't end up in a landfill.
Definitely overkill. You’d think Apple would be better about these things.