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| Apple aims to use only recycled materials in their products |
Apple, who already feeds 96% of its facilities with renewable energy, has a new environmental goal: one day develop all your gadgets using only recycled materials.
Cupertino's giant tech released its Environmental liability report (err,, in which they stipulate that it is part of their objective to achieve a closed supply chain, "where products are developed only with renewable resources or recycled material".
"Traditional supply chains are linear," explained Apple. "Materials are extracted, manufactured as products, and often end up in landfills after use." Apple wants to change that, and instead dismantle the old gadgets and use the material to build new products.
"We are also challenging ourselves to one day end our dependence on full extraction," Apple wrote.
Those goals are complicated, and Apple admitted not being 100% sure how to do it.
"We are really doing something we rarely do, which is announcing a goal before fully deciphering how to do it," said Apple's VP of Environment, politics, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson to Vice News. "So we're a little nervous, but we also think it's very important, because as a sector we think it's the direction that technology should follow."
Apple has already melted the recovered aluminum from iphone 6, and reused the material to create Mac mini computers that the company uses internally. "We wanted to show that it is possible to use your own leftovers to create new products," Apple said. "We are now looking for new opportunities to expand this pilot program."
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