I agree it is a waste of plastic, but hardly a huge offender. Go to your local Wal-Mart and look at the waste in some modern packaging for small things like SD cards and flash drives. The wasteful plastic on the SIM cards at the very least has a purpose for identification.
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MicroSIM - disgusting waste of plastic
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Agreed. It's a small thing and there are MANY other worse things. But Apple should use their name and influence to start making this change. Perhaps they should insist Bestbuy reduces packaging by 5% each year in order to supply iPad. I'm sure they would and could.
As I said above, change has to come from someone, somewhere, in a position of power, for anything to come of it.
Ok - so what you mean to say is that the extra plastic on the sim card, since it's not as much as say, what wal-mart uses is not as worthy of trying to reduce/eliminate? Do I understand you correctly? I mean I know you agree it's a waste. But every EVERY bit helps.
Buildings are built one brick at a time
A petition starts with one signature
A flood starts with a few raindrops
Shifting focus to a bigger problem which takes a lot more effort and energy is silly. If you start with a small, manageable task , you can actually affect change.
So who cares if this small amount isn't "significant" - it's something. Should we not pick up a wrapper on the ground because companies are dumping millions of tons of garbage elsewhere? No. Everyone should do what they can. Period.
Psh.. You aught to be super happy with the piece of crap flimsy cases dvd's and blu rays are being shipped in now. The ones that your fingers punch through when picking it up because it's firkin hollowed out on both sides! Pisses me off...
That's like worrying about methane from your farts as opposed to worrying the smog from gas and coal burning
Ok. One rain drop of water on the sensor in your iPad can null the warranty.
A cup of water can null the warranty.
Do you not care about the one drop?
How is Micro SIM waste more "plastic" anymore than the normal Mini SIM that we use on our phones
Missing Point
Has anyone considered that AT&T and Apple might be recycling the waste? And that is how this applies to an iPad post full of speculation and little if any facts.
Has anyone considered that AT&T and Apple might be recycling the waste? And that is how this applies to an iPad post full of speculation and little if any facts.
racer1441 said:
Attitudes like this one are exactly why the environment continues to deteriorate.
Having said that, I do find it a tad ironic to complain about superflous plastic bits being delivered with an utterly non-essential luxury toy. The iPad is a 1 pound slab of toxic chemicals and/or their byproducts.