Apple’s sustainability: 30% recycled materials

Apple also made further progress in reducing its environmental footprint through packaging and emissions. All of its products are now shipped in fibre-based packages, helping avoid the use of more than 15,000 metric tons of plastic. At the same time, the company’s greenhouse gas emissions remain 60% lower compared to 2015.

Its supply chain is also playing a critical role. Direct suppliers have procured more than 20 gigawatts of renewable energy under their Supplier Clean Energy Program, generating over 38 million megawatt-hours of electricity.

To improve end-of-life material recovery, Apple has launched a new electronics recycling line in California. Called Cora, the recycling line uses precision shredding and advanced sensors to achieve higher recovery rates than industry standards. Apple has also developed A.R.I.S, a machine learning-powered detection system that can efficiently identify and sort electronic scrap. These systems join Daisy, Apple’s iPhone dismantling robot, each of which can dissemble 1.2 million iPhones a year.

Source: Apple