Devices on any network are welcome as long as its on our database. This is £7.50 for a phone-sized package, or £26.60 for an iMac. You could sell your old phone or tablet with EE. But if you want the safety net of special delivery – which we’d advise – you’ll have to pay extra. No matter the model or condition, we can turn it into something good for you and good for the planet. 1 If your device isn’t eligible for credit, we’ll recycle it for free. It’s easy to trade in your eligible device for credit toward your next purchase, or get an Apple Gift Card you can use anytime. Cue a disgruntled trip to the recycling.)īrightstar pays the postage. Turn the device you have into the one you want. (Then two days later, another iMac-sized box arrived, for some reason. Three working days later it arrived, and we packaged it up, attached the enclosed label and lugged it to the post office. The customer service rep we phoned admitted the programme had been having “some teething issues”, and arranged for a bigger box to be sent out. If you do take the online route, Brightstar 20:20 – the company that handles Apple’s Renew programme – will send you the correct packaging, though the first box we received was only big enough for an iPhone, not our 21.5-inch iMac. You can also get credit for an iMac from 2007 or newer, but this has to be done online rather than in-store to in order to qualify for the credit. You’ll get Apple Credit for more modern devices such as an iPad 2 or newer, iPhone 4 or newer, a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air or MacBook, and some non-iOS smartphones. Here’s the full lowdown: Apple’s Renew program allows you to recycle all Apple and non-Apple products both online and in stores, including smartphones, batteries, tablets and computers. So we manhandled it into an Uber and headed to the Apple Store in London’s Covent Garden, where we were told politely but firmly that they don’t take desktop computers in-store, only mobile devices and laptops. We did that and regretted it.ĪppleCare Telephone Support told us to take our iMac to an Apple Store and they’d handle the rest – we didn’t even need to book an appointment, they said. So I just take my iThing to the Apple Store?

Apple recycle program