[nanaya]

Here's difference between airpods and plastic bottles:

> They can’t be repaired because they're glued together. They can’t be thrown out, or else the lithium-ion battery may start a fire in the garbage compactor. They can’t be easily recycled, because there’s no safe way to separate the lithium-ion battery from the plastic shell.

[zoul]

It would be interesting to ask Apple how much they manage to recycle from the AirPods and how. Would that be asking too much from the article author?

[dngray]

It's not something that Apple openly markets as being a reason why you should buy them so my guess would be a lot less than you think, because of cost to do so.

Whereas with Macbooks they openly tout that https://www.apple.com/environment/

"Built to last as long as humanly possible." -- Apple

That doesn't sound like an Airpod to me.

[zoul]

No it doesn’t, agreed. But I imagine the design constraints for a notebook vs. wireless headphones are pretty different. I am amazed that the thing can be built at all.