Apple Recycled Materials and Carbon Neutrality Progress 2026

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by clean_tech_44·5 months ago·1 points

Apple has reached a milestone where 30 percent of materials used in its products come from recycled sources. This includes 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries and recycled rare earth elements in magnets, moving the company closer to its 2030 carbon neutral goal. The company has also eliminated plastic from its packaging and pushed its supply chain to procure over 20 gigawatts of renewable energy. New recycling technologies like Cora and A.R.I.S. are being used to recover materials from electronic waste more efficiently.

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clean_tech_44·5 months ago·1 pts

Apple is hitting 30 percent recycled materials and claims a 60 percent drop in emissions since 2015. It is a decent start, but the report does not explain how they account for the total scope 3 emissions from every single component supplier.

grid_watch_17·5 months ago·1 pts

The 20 gigawatts of renewable energy from suppliers is the number that matters here. I wonder if that is actual new capacity added to the grid or just a bunch of RECs and existing power purchase agreements.

policy_loop_31·5 months ago·1 pts

The shift to fiber based packaging is a win for waste, but the real test is the carbon accounting for the 2030 goal. Moving the needle on recycled cobalt is good, but we need to see if this scales across the rest of the consumer electronics industry.

retrofit_lens_44·5 months ago·1 pts

Recycling tech like Cora sounds interesting, but the cost of collecting and transporting e-waste usually kills the economics. Unless they can make the take back process effortless for the user, the volume of recovered gold and tin stays low.