Apple today revealed a significant acceleration of its efforts to increase the use of recycled materials in all of its products, including a new aim of using 100% recycled cobalt1 in all Apple-designed batteries by the year 2025. In addition, all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100 percent recycled tin soldering and 100 percent recycled gold plating by 2025, and magnets in Apple devices will be made completely of recycled rare earth materials.
Over two-thirds of all aluminum, almost three-quarters of all rare earth, and more than 95% of all tungsten used in Apple products are now sourced from 100% recycled material after the company greatly increased its use of important recycled metals in 2022. This quick development improves Apple’s 2030 target of making every product carbon neutral and moves the company closer to its goal of making all goods using exclusively recycled and renewable resources.
Apple CEO Tim Cook stated, “Apple is innovating every day to create technology that enhances people’s lives while safeguarding the planet we all share.” “Our environmental work is essential to everything we do and who we are, from the recycled materials in our products to the renewable energy that drives our operations. We will therefore continue to go forward with the conviction that excellent technology should be excellent for our users and for the environment.
According to Lisa Jackson, vice president of Apple’s Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, “Our ambition to one day use 100 percent recycled and renewable materials in our products works hand in hand with Apple 2030: our goal to achieve carbon neutral products by 2030.” We are urgently pursuing both objectives while also fostering innovation throughout our whole sector.
