Apple Announces Environmental Progress in China & Applauds Supplier Commitment to Clean Energy
August 17 2016 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Lens Technology is First Supplier to Commit to 100% Renewable
Energy for All Apple Operations
All 14 Final Assembly Sites in China are Now Zero Waste
Compliant
Apple® today announced a significant commitment by major
supplier Lens Technology to run its Apple operations on entirely
renewable energy. This unprecedented commitment, combined with zero
waste compliance from all final assembly sites, furthers Apple’s
efforts to help manufacturers lower their carbon footprint and
reduce waste in China, helping to advance China’s transition to a
new green economy.
Lens Technology has committed to power all of its glass
production for Apple with 100 percent renewable energy by the end
of 2018, as part of Apple’s industry-leading supply chain clean
energy program announced last year. Lens is the first supplier to
make a clean energy commitment for all of its Apple production, and
will meet its goal through an unprecedented power purchase
agreement with local wind projects.
Apple is working with suppliers to help transform the
environmental landscape in China, and is proud to announce all 14
of its final assembly sites in China are now compliant with UL’s
Zero Waste to Landfill validation. The UL standard certifies all of
their manufacturing waste is reused, recycled, composted, or, when
necessary, converted into energy. Since the program began in
January 2015, the sites have diverted more than 140,000 metric tons
of waste from landfills.
“We want to show the world that you can manufacture responsibly
and we’re working alongside our suppliers to help them lower their
environmental impact in China,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice
president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. “We
congratulate Lens for their bold step, and hope by sharing the
lessons we’ve learned in our transition to renewable energy, our
suppliers will continue to access clean power projects, moving
China closer to its green manufacturing goals.”
“Our power purchase agreement is the first of its kind in
southern China and we hope it will serve as an example for other
companies looking to transition to cleaner, more economical sources
of power,” said Lens CEO Zhou Qunfei. “We’re pleased to be the
first supplier to commit to covering all of our Apple production
with renewable energy, and proud to source from local Hunan wind
farms to power our facilities in Changsha.”
Lens’ manufacturing with Apple currently includes two facilities
in Changsha, Hunan province. Wind energy will cover 100 percent of
the energy consumed producing Apple products at Lens facilities by
2018, avoiding nearly 450,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each
year, equivalent to the energy use in 380,000 Chinese homes.
Through its clean energy program, Apple will partner with
suppliers in China to install more than 2 gigawatts of new clean
energy in the coming years, avoiding over 20 million metric tons of
greenhouse gas pollution in the country between now and 2020.
Foxconn committed in October to construct 400 megawatts of solar,
starting in Henan province, by 2018. The manufacturer is now well
on its way to constructing the first 80 megawatts of that
commitment.
Earlier this year, Foxconn final assembly sites at Guanlan and
Taiyuan were the first in China to receive UL’s Zero Waste to
Landfill validation. With the recent addition of 12 manufacturing
sites, all of Apple’s final assembly production in China is now
zero waste compliant.
“We applaud innovative companies, like Apple, that are leading
by actively reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing
operations,” said UL president and CEO Keith Williams. “Achieving
zero waste is an extensive effort that requires close coordination
across all facets of a company’s operations, especially when the
commitment is global.”
Apple has taken significant steps to protect the environment by
transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy. Today, the company
is powering 100 percent of its operations in China and the US, and
more than 93 percent of its worldwide operations, with renewable
energy.
Learn more about Apple’s environmental efforts at
apple.com/environment.
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of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
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dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the
world better than we found it.
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