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US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
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Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
#12Reminds me of Minamata, Japanese company was dumping mercury into the nearby lakes and hushing everything up. Movie is great BTW, thank fk I don't live near a chemical plant.
Apple started to clean up only after getting tipped off of an EPA raid. They also didn't test or analyse chemicals. And conveniently stopped having weekly inspections. Truly a case of ignorance is bliss. Huh, toxic what now? No no it's NOT toxic, we marked it as non hazardous so it's OK.
Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
#13Here goes Apple Intelligence / some random feature not coming to the US because Apple has too much compliance to do. /s
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#14This is pretty awful. And if Apple, with all their supposed green credentials, are the ones dumping toxic industrial chemicals into the environment in the middle of Santa Clara, you can only imagine what the rest of the industry is like.
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#15From the thread TLDR; EPA discovered that Apple was: - illegally treating hazardous waste - illegally transporting hazardous waste to disposal facilities - illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows) - leaving stockpiles of extremely dangerous chemicals unattended on weekends
And they were accidentally tipped off about the inspection when it should have been a complete surprise. I feel like stuff like this should be capable of piercing the corporate veil so that people involved could be criminally prosecuted. As-is, Apple is incentivized to just keep this kind of behavior in their ranks because it’s just the cost of doing business as they usually get away with this kind of stuff.
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#16I've called the county environmental service on a plastic recycling plant 0.5 mile's away from my house because any time the wind is blowing our way there's a really thick burning plastic smell that makes you want to gag. It makes it impossible to enjoy outside or open our windows.
They try treating the smell as a nuisance complaint rather than a health hazard (tbh probably on purpose). Then they'll send someone to your property to see if they smell it.
They need smell it for 15 continuous minutes and consider it intolerable for anything to be done about it. But the wind constantly shifts a little back and forth so it's impossible to get 15 continuous minutes and what they consider intolerable is so subjective. Even when it's strong the person tries telling me its barely noticeable and has the audacity to tell me it smells like popcorn (wtf?!?).
The town doesn't care at all because it doesn't want to give residents preference over business.
Now people are just starting to move away because they can't tolerate it anymore. It feels helpless when you're likely breathing in toxic VOCs and the people that are supposed to be the ones that help and protect you seem to be working for the companies.
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#17This is pretty awful. And if Apple , with all their supposed green credentials, are the ones dumping toxic industrial chemicals into the environment in the middle of Santa Clara, you can only imagine what the rest of the industry is like.
So much for their environmental marketing bullshit
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#18Reminds me of Minamata, Japanese company was dumping mercury into the nearby lakes and hushing everything up. Movie is great BTW, thank fk I don't live near a chemical plant. Apple started to clean up only after getting tipped off of an EPA raid. They also didn't test or analyse chemicals. And conveniently stopped having weekly inspections. Truly a case of ignorance is bliss. Huh, toxic what now? No no it's NOT toxic…
> Truly a case of ignorance is bliss.
Or "we fired the guys who complained until we stopped receiving complaints."
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#19This is pretty awful. And if Apple , with all their supposed green credentials, are the ones dumping toxic industrial chemicals into the environment in the middle of Santa Clara, you can only imagine what the rest of the industry is like.
So much for their environmental marketing bullshit
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