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Tim Cook tweeted: ‘It’s devastating to see the fires and destruction ravaging the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s most important ecosystems’
Firms including Apple, Fujitsu and Sony believe the switch to renewables is essential to improving their corporate competitiveness in the global economy as well as tackling climate change
Apple has quadrupled the number of locations customers can send their old iPhone to be recycled
The new projects in Illinois and Virginia will provide around 290MW of new capacity
It aims to boost the use of renewable energy in its supply chain
It says this significantly improves the sustainability of what is a key material in many of its most popular products
It extracts components for other uses which traditional recyclers cannot
Apple has issued a $1 billion (£0.8bn) green bond to finance clean energy and environmental projects. It comes a year after its first green bond of $1.5 billion (£1.2bn) – the largest from a US corporation – and follows Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate deal. The technology giant said its […]
Apple hopes to one day stop using mined materials and make its products 100% recyclable. That’s according to the technology giant’s annual environment report, which says the firm is looking into ways to cut out the presence of metals and toxic rare materials such as tungsten, tantalum, gold and cobalt from its devices. The firm […]
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