An iPhone gets pulverized in the name of science. Photo: University of Plymouth

iPhone Smoothie Reveals its Environmental Footprint

Scientists stick an iPhone in a blender to see what it’s made of.

Robert Roy Britt
3 min readMar 18, 2019

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If you wish to find out what’s in an iPhone, you’ll need to destroy it. Step 1: choose an iPhone 4S, not an expensive iPhone X. CAUTION! Remove the battery. Then, if you’re a research duo at the University of Plymouth, you don safety glasses and stick the smartphone in…

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB