Apple's recycling policy has not changed over the past several years.

“All equipment assembled for recycling is manually and mechanically disassembled and shredded. The resulting fractions are sorted into plastics, metals and glass, after which they are sold or used as raw materials in the production process. Reuse is prohibited. Collection of parts is prohibited. Resale is not possible"- quote from Apple documents.

As far as my sources told - some of big managers during internal meeting proudly said that they got billions of additional profits in 2020 due this policy. And how glad they are and how they want to widen destruction of perfectly good computers that just need small fix.