Apple Expands Global Recycling Programs
April 18 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Apple® today announced a major expansion of its recycling
programs, quadrupling the number of locations US customers can send
their iPhone® to be disassembled by Daisy, its recycling
robot. Daisy will disassemble and recycle select used iPhones
returned to Best Buy stores throughout the US and KPN
retailers in the Netherlands. Customers can also turn in their
eligible devices to be recycled at any Apple Store® or
through apple.com as part of the Apple Trade
In program.
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Daisy, Apple's recycling robot, will now
disassemble used iPhones returned to Best Buy in the US and KPN in
the Netherlands. (Photo: Business Wire)
Apple has received nearly 1 million devices through
Apple programs and each Daisy can disassemble 1.2 million devices
per year. In 2018, the company refurbished more than 7.8
million Apple devices and helped divert more than 48,000
metric tons of electronic waste from landfills.
“Advanced recycling must become an important part of the
electronics supply chain, and Apple is pioneering a new path to
help push our industry forward,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice
president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. “We work
hard to design products that our customers can rely on for a long
time. When it comes time to recycle them, we hope that the
convenience and benefit of our programs will encourage everyone to
bring in their old devices.”
Daisy is now able to disassemble 15 different iPhone
models at the rate of 200 per hour, recovering even more important
materials for re-use. Once materials have been recovered from
Daisy, they are recycled back into the manufacturing process. For
cobalt, which is a key battery material,
Apple sends iPhone batteries recovered by Daisy upstream
in its supply chain. They are then combined with scrap
from select manufacturing sites and, for the first time, cobalt
recovered through this process is now being used to make
brand-new Apple batteries — a true closed loop for this precious
material.
Apple also uses 100 percent recycled tin in a key component of
the main logic boards of 11 different products. The
company’s engineering of an aluminum alloy made from 100 percent
recycled aluminum allows the new MacBook Air® and Mac
mini® to have nearly half the carbon footprint of earlier
models. Starting this year, aluminum recovered through
the Apple Trade In program is being remelted into the enclosures
for the MacBook Air.
To further its research on recycling, Apple today also announced
the opening of its Material Recovery Lab dedicated to discovering
future recycling processes. The
new 9,000-square-foot facility in
Austin, Texas, will look for innovative solutions
involving robotics and machine learning to improve on
traditional methods like targeted disassembly, sorting and
shredding. The Lab will work with Apple engineering teams as well
as academia to address and propose solutions
to today’s industry recycling challenges.
Apple continues to expand its programs to ensure devices are
used for as long as possible. The number of Apple
Stores and network of Authorized Service Providers has grown
to over 5,000 worldwide. Last fall, Apple rolled out a new method
for optimizing iPhone screen repairs that allows thousands more
independent shops to offer the service. Apple also launched a
battery replacement and recycling program for all of its
products.
Today, Apple released its 2019 Environment report, which
contains additional information on the company’s climate
change solutions, including
its recent announcement that 44 of its
suppliers have committed to 100 percent renewable energy
for their Apple production. The report can be viewed
at apple.com/environment. The company will be celebrating
Earth Day on April 22 with environmentally themed Today
at Apple® sessions at all Apple Stores, and will be
featuring original stories and collections of apps and
games on the App Store® to help people honor
the Earth and consider their role in the natural ecosystem.
Apple’s Earth Day Challenge also encourages Apple
Watch® wearers to complete any outdoor workout of 30 minutes
or more to earn a special Earth Day Award and stickers for
Messages.1
Apple will also be supporting the efforts of
environmentally-focused non-profits Conservation
International, SEE Foundation and The Recycling Partnership —
expanding on its conservation and resource efficiency work from
last year.
1 In order to see the Activity challenge, users must have
iOS 12.1.3 and watchOS 5.1.3, or later.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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