Ultra-Thin Apple MacBook 2016 Can Destroy Earth?

Thinking of buying the Apple's next MacBook worth buying? You should, if you do not care for the planet, a new report says.

According to 9to5, the upcoming MacBook will be more aesthetically more appealing - bigger and thinner than the current versions of the 12-inch model. However, unless the company makes a U-turn on its sustainability issues, the new product will have long-term and massive effects on the planet, Huffington Post reported. 

Even though Apple has not confirmed these reports, the company has always been upfront that its direction is always toward shrinking hardware. 

Slimmer products always attract consumers. The idea of bringing something so powerful and yet so light is always good in the eyes of the tech lovers. However, this might be terrible for the recycle industry and environmentalists.

If the gadgets gets smaller and smaller, including the new Apple MacBook, it will become increasingly difficult to recycle them. Manufacturers are now favoring the use of glue instead of screw, so that screens and innards become harder to replace or eventually use again for other purposes.

Batteries are now to next impossible to access. 

Usually, small technologies are recycled through shredding, wherein they are crushed to their smallest pieces so that the metals and mall parts can be scrapped. However, shredding is not sustainable. 

One example is the Microsoft Surface. "In general the Surface is awful to recycle because it's glued together - the process to disassemble these devices takes too long, and requires way too much heat to be viable," Kyle Wiens, creator of the repair website iFixit, told The Huffington Post.

Wiens added that the new MacBook will certainly be this difficult to recycle. "I imagine the new MacBook will be the same as the old, with some incremental design changes and the same recycling problems."

Wiens suggested that there is still time for Apple to make a turnaround. "We'd like to see a new MacBook with a removable battery," Wiens said. "Make the product straight-forward to disassemble, don't glue the assembly, and provide information to recyclers."