How will the iPhone’s switch to USB-C impact electronic waste?
A worker puts salvaged wiring into a bin at an electronic waste facility in Belgium. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) / Associated Press
How will the iPhone’s switch to USB-C impact electronic waste?
A worker puts salvaged wiring into a bin at an electronic waste facility in Belgium. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) / Associated Press

This month Apple rolled out the biggest change to the iPhone in over a decade. It abandoned its proprietary lighting cable in exchange for the universal USB-C charger for new iPhone 15 models.

Reset speaks with environmental advocates about the move and to learn more about electronic waste and recycling.

GUESTS: Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe, executive director, Center for Hard to Recycle Materials

Samira Hanessian, energy policy director, Illinois Environmental Council

How will the iPhone’s switch to USB-C impact electronic waste?
A worker puts salvaged wiring into a bin at an electronic waste facility in Belgium. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) / Associated Press
How will the iPhone’s switch to USB-C impact electronic waste?
A worker puts salvaged wiring into a bin at an electronic waste facility in Belgium. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) / Associated Press

This month Apple rolled out the biggest change to the iPhone in over a decade. It abandoned its proprietary lighting cable in exchange for the universal USB-C charger for new iPhone 15 models.

Reset speaks with environmental advocates about the move and to learn more about electronic waste and recycling.

GUESTS: Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe, executive director, Center for Hard to Recycle Materials

Samira Hanessian, energy policy director, Illinois Environmental Council