Apple to use 100% recycled cobalt by 2025
The electronics giant plans aims to expand recycled materials across its products.
At Apple’s Material Recovery Lab in Austin, Texas, USA, Apple’s disassembly robot Daisy is able to identify individual iPhone models to determine which actions to perform.
© Apple/ unsplashApple has announced a target to use 100% recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries by 2025.
By the same year, the company plans that magnets in their devices will use entirely recycled rare-earth elements and for Apple-designed printed circuit boards to use 100% recycled tin soldering and 100% recycled gold plating.
In 2022, the company says they expanded their use of recycled materials and now two-thirds of aluminium, three-quarters of rare-earths and more than 95% of tungsten is from 100% recycled material.
'Our ambition to one day use 100% recycled and renewable materials in our products works hand in hand with Apple 2030: our goal to achieve carbon-neutral products by 2030,' says Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives.
