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| Selling iPhones without chargers saves tons of metal |
Apple said its decision not to tie the charger to its products (such as the iPhone) could save 861,000 tons of metals, including copper, zinc, and tin.
The smaller packaging of the company's new iPhone allows the company to ship the device more efficiently. Each charging slot can hold 70% additional iPhone 12 cases.
The company makes this information available in its 2021 Environmental Progress Report, which covers fiscal year 2020.
Last year, Apple reduced its carbon dioxide emissions from 25.1 million tons in 2019 to 22.6 million tons while reducing energy consumption by 13.9 million kilowatt hours.
“As a company, we are making progress more urgent than ever to create a stronger and healthier planet for our planet and ours - the future of its people,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environmental, political and social initiatives.
"We have made great strides in the face of climate change in 2020. Apple's global operations are achieving carbon neutrality and we are committed to covering our entire footprint (from supply chain to use) by 2030. Being carbon neutral," she added. The products we manufacture.
The same products now use more recycled materials than ever before, for example B. 40% of the recycled materials in the MacBook Air with the Retina display and 99% of the recycled materials the company now uses for the iPhone 12 and Apple Watch Series 6. Tungsten.
The report noted that the company's ongoing work at the Texas Material Recycling Laboratory includes recovering materials such as rare earths, steel and tungsten from recycled iPhones.
According to Apple, the gold and copper in a ton of components removed by a Daisy iPhone tear-off robot equals 150 tons of metals.
The company also said it removed 39,000 tons of e-waste from landfills last year.
The Apple M1 chip is designed to improve energy efficiency. The company said: The use of a processor in the Mac Mini reduces the carbon footprint of the entire system by 34%.
Meanwhile, the energy required by the eighth generation iPad, taking part in the switch to more energy-efficient chargers, is 66% less than the energy required by Energy Star.
Over the past 12 years, iPhone manufacturers have reduced the average energy consumption of their products by more than 70%.
With more than 110 suppliers committed to using clean energy, efforts have been made to expand the company's supply chain.
By December, more than 90% of companies had installed technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 90%.
The report covers already well-known initiatives such as the Apple Data Center, which has long been powered only by renewable electricity, and the data center that recently invested $ 200 million in carbon capture to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.