City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products

Apples Cupertino headquarters may just be a few miles away from San Francisco, but the city wont be spending any more cash on its products.

According to the Wall Street Journal, city agencies in San Francisco will no longer be able to purchase Apple products after the company asked the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) the group that sets environmental standards for electronics to remove all 39 of its products from the agency's green registry.

The standards set forth by EPEAT require products to be easily disassembled by consumers -- so that they can remove toxic components such as batteries in order to be considered green. Apples newest prod…
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