
The environmental pitfalls at the end of an iPhone’s life
A buyer of used mobile phones sits in front of the SEG Electronics Market in Shenzhen.
(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)
SHENZHEN, Guangdong province, China — A young man, wearing a short-sleeve, white, button-down shirt, is looking at my 32-gigabyte iPhone 4S.
The man, sitting at a small stand in front of the massive SEG Electronics Market here, surfs to the settings page on the device, looks at the model number to determine where the phone came from. He sees it’s a locked device. He notes there aren’t any scratches or dings, and that it seems to work just fine. It should. I bought it last…
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