Apple says it cares about the climate. So why does it cost the earth to repair my Macbook? | Arwa Mahdawi

The company's CEO waxes lyrical about the urgent threat to our environment, but it makes fixing its products prohibitively expensive

My beloved MacBook Air was only two years old when it died. It had seemed perfectly healthy the night before, but when I tried to turn it on in the morning there was no response.

Panicked, I rushed to the nearest Apple store. A "Genius" told me gently to give up hope: there had been an electrical failure; it was a goner. Apple could repair it, the Genius said, but it would cost at least $600 (460) and take weeks; in the end, it would be cheaper just to buy a new one. So, with a lot of grumbling, that is what I did.