Greenpeace And Apple

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Greenpeace and Apple are trying to influence our opinion and consuming habits in many differents way.

First, we can see that in the video “Meet Liam”, Apple is trying to influence our consuming habits by showing us that they care about the environment. To do so, they explain that they created a robot, Liam, which purpose is to dismantle old Apple cellphone so they can reuse some parts and effectively recycle the parts they can’t reuse, because ressources are not unlimited. For Greenpeace, they try to show us what happens if you don’t effectively recycle your electronics devices by showing us where they end up, and what happens to them. For example, they show us that people need to work in horrible conditions to dismantle the electronics, and

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