Apple recovered nearly $40 million in gold through its recycling program last year, by By Micah Singleton.

Apple declared that it had recovered nearly 90 million pounds of materials from Apple devices recycled through is program in 2015. Sixty-one million pounds of those materials are reusable in future products, including 2,204 pounds of gold, which Business Insider calculates is worth nearly $40 million. Apparently that iPhone disassembling robot was a good investment.

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