Treehugger: Saving iPods from the Landfill

Treehugger: Saving iPods from the Landfill

For those of you who don't have to have the cutting edge iPod fresh off the apple-cart every year, (I gotta admit the 3 year old 20gigger I got still suits me just fine) but are experiencing some technical difficulties with your older pod, well TreeHugger has the answer...

We used to live in a culture where there were shoe repair and appliance repair shops all over town. These all faded away as the gear was designed to be pitched rather than fixed and was cheap enough that people didn't think twice about it. iPods, although expensive, are treated as if disposable and some say Apple wants it that way. To their discredit, Apple offers no support to entrepreneurs like Matt, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. Thanks to Matt, one less dead iPod got stuck in a drawer or tossed in the garbage.