100 Thousand Apple Products Destined for Recycling Were Stolen (!)

US technology company Appleis a company that attaches great importance to recycling and destroys hundreds of thousands of products every year both under its own roof and through its partners. to recycling It makes money.

One of Apple's recycling partners is a Canadian-based company. Geep Canada and it seems that the partnership between the two companies has not progressed as desired.

According to the lawsuit filed by Apple against Geep Canada, it was sent to the Canadian company for recycling purposes. Over 100 thousand iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches; Instead of being broken down and recycled, it has been sold back to the market.

Moreover, Geep Canada also confirms the claims made by Apple and states that the 'sale' in question is a product that is not within the company's knowledge. three 'greedy' employees has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that it was carried out by Apple. According to Apple, the greedy employees in question are at Geep Canada. senior manager people who are.

According to Apple, the number of products available for resale is over 100 thousand.

Although it has just been announced that Apple has filed a lawsuit against Geep Canada, the history of the lawsuit filed by Apple January 2020The countersuit filed by Geep Canada dates back to July 2020. 

Allegedly, Apple was sent to Geep Canada for recycling between 2015 and 2017. 531,966 iPhones, 25,673 iPads and 19,277 Apple Watches sent. However, after seeing that not all of the units it sent were in Geep Canada's warehouse, Apple checked the serial numbers of the devices.

$22.7 million in revenue was generated from the resale of products that should have been recycled

As a result of the checks carried out 103,845 devices In other words, it was determined that approximately 18 percent of the devices Apple sent to Geep Canada in the said time period were connected to operator networks, meaning they continued to be used somewhere. According to Apple, this determination is only the number of devices with LTE connection feature. In other words, with Apple Watch and iPads that do not support LTE This number may go even higher.

In the lawsuit filed against Geep Canada, Apple claimed that the proceeds from the resale of over 100 thousand devices were $22.7 million He wants the income back. Geep, on the other hand, states that he is looking for three employees responsible for the sale in the lawsuit he filed against Apple. In other words, Geep admits that there was a sale of $22.7 million, but claims that he does not know who the people who made it were.