![]() ![]() The company announced today another significant investment in its recycling efforts with the opening of a Material Recovery Lab in Austin, which will work with Apple engineers and academia on coming up with more solutions to recycling industry challenges. This year, aluminum recovered through Apple’s Trade In program will be remelted into the enclosures for the MacBook Air. It also in 2018 refurbished more than 7.8 million Apple devices for resale, and diverted more than 48,000 metric tons of electronic waste from landfills. That includes iPhone batteries, which are now sent back upstream in Apple’s supply chain where they’re combined with scrap, allowing cobalt to be recovered for the first time.Īpple also uses 100 percent recycled tin in the main logic boards of 11 products, and notes its aluminum alloy made from 100 percent recycled aluminum reduced the carbon footprint of the new MacBook Air and Mac mini by nearly half.Īpple says Daisy can disassemble 1.2 million devices per year, and it has received nearly a million devices through its various programs. ![]() This allows Apple to recover parts for re-use. ![]() When Daisy was first introduced, it could disassemble nine iPhone models. Customers can also send in iPhones for recycling through the Apple Store or through Apple’s Trade In program online. The robot was developed in-house by Apple engineers, and is able to disassemble different types of iPhone models at a rate of 200 iPhones per hour.ĭaisy can now disassemble and recycle used iPhones returned to Best Buy stores in the U.S. where consumers can send their iPhones to be disassembled by Daisy, the recycling robot Apple introduced last year - also just ahead of Earth Day. The expansion of the recycling program will quadruple the number of locations in the U.S. The company also reported the success of its existing efforts around recycling and refurbishing older Apple devices, and keeping electronic waste from landfills. Apple announced today a further investment in its recycling programs and related e-waste efforts, which includes an expansion of its recycling program for consumers and the announcement of a new, 9,000-square-foot Material Recovery Lab based in Austin, Texas, focused on discovering future recycling processes. ![]()
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