We’re carbon neutral.
And by 2030, every product you love will be too.- How it’s designed.
- How it’s made.
- How it’s shipped.
- How it’s used.
- How it’s recycled.
Earth won’t wait. Neither will we.
Our plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.
Designing for low carbon. We’re making products with more recycled materials and working to reduce the amount of energy these devices use.
Increasing energy efficiency. We’re using energy more efficiently across retail stores, offices, data centres and manufacturing sites.
Using renewable energy. We’re committed to transitioning our entire manufacturing supply chain to 100 per cent renewable electricity generated from solar, wind and other renewable projects.
Avoiding direct emissions. We’re innovating the processes in our facilities and supply chain to avoid greenhouse gas emissions.
Investing in nature-based solutions. We’re investing in working forests and ecosystem restoration in ways that respect communities and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Using electricity from renewable sources to make Apple Products
Clean energy is
no longer optional.
The biggest part of our carbon footprint comes from the electricity used to build the products you love. By switching to clean energy across our supply chain, we can erase the majority of that footprint. Since 2015, Apple’s Supplier Clean Energy Program has helped our manufacturing suppliers transition to renewable electricity generated from solar, wind and other renewable projects. And by 2030, all our products will be made with 100 per cent clean energy.
110+More than 110 Apple suppliers have committed to clean energy.
4GWWe’ve added over four gigawatts of renewable electricity online to our supply chain.
8.6TRenewable energy brought online to our supply chain has helped avoid over 8 million tonnes of carbon emissions.
In the fight against climate change, every voice matters.
Climate solutions can help dismantle systemic barriers.
Communities of colour around the world often bear the greatest impact of climate change. But environmental solutions can help advance equity for these communities. Apple’s Impact Accelerator supports Black- and Brown‑owned businesses and innovations that can also drive positive outcomes in our supply chain. The Impact Accelerator is part of our Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI). It focuses on efforts that address education, economic equality and criminal justice reform in the United States. REJI’s Impact Accelerator can help bring opportunity to Black and Brown businesses while creating innovative solutions to climate change.
Our products use less power. That’s powerful.
Energy-saving products reduce our carbon footprint. And yours.
Product energy use makes up 19 per cent of our carbon footprint and affects the carbon footprint of each customer. Designing products that require less energy is one of the major ways we can lower their carbon impact, even as they’re being used. Innovations in energy efficiency in one product can influence another. When you multiply these improvements by all the Apple devices in the world, you’ll see the difference it can make.
70%In 12 years, we’ve reduced average product energy use by more than 70 per cent.
66%iPad (8th generation) consumes 66 per cent less energy than the ENERGY STAR® requirement.
We’re investing in some wild ideas for carbon removal.
Nature can help us get to neutral.
Apple strives to bring our emissions down as low as possible. But there are some emissions we can’t yet avoid. To remove unavoidable carbon emissions from the atmosphere, we are looking to nature‑based solutions. With Conservation International (CI) and Goldman Sachs, we have created the US$200 million Restore Fund to make investments in natural climate solutions while seeking to generate a financial return. The world’s forests, wetlands and grasslands have an important role to play in achieving global climate targets. We’re already working with CI to naturally restore the degraded savannas of the Chyulu Hills in Kenya, demonstrate innovative new models with mangroves in coastal Colombia, and protect more Amazon rainforest from loss in the Rio Nieva Reserve Zone of northern Peru. All of these efforts combined will help sequester carbon and restore ecosystems while helping us along the way to our 2030 goal of carbon neutrality.
2BOver 2 billion acres of restored savanna can remove hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every year.
94K94,000 acres have been added to Peru’s Alto Mayo Protected Area.
27K27,000 acres of restored mangrove forest can store up to 1 million tonnes of carbon over its lifetime.
iMac brings us closer to net zero.
iMac is designed to take carbon out of the equation.
We design our products to have a lighter environmental footprint. The new 24‑inch iMac is evidence. Not only is its enclosure made with low‑carbon aluminium, but it also uses recycled plastic, recycled tin and recycled rare earth elements. The new M1 chip, now in the 24‑inch iMac, is the first chip designed specifically for Mac. M1 is designed to run tasks as efficiently as possible, delivering outstanding performance while using significantly less power. This change, along with our efforts to use recycled and low‑carbon materials, has decreased the carbon footprint of the new iMac by about 20 per cent compared with the previous generation.1
One less thing.
Fewer chargers mean less environmental impact.
Power adapters use the largest amounts of certain materials, including plastic, copper, tin and zinc. Since removing them from iPhone and Apple Watch packaging last year, we’ve avoided mining a significant amount of materials from the earth, and we’ve eliminated the emissions that come from processing and transporting them. Using smaller, lighter packaging lets us ship more boxes at once, which helps reduce our carbon footprint. Leaving out those adapters was a bold change for Apple, and a necessary one for our planet.
861K861,000 tonnes of copper, tin and zinc ore are expected to be saved by removing power adapters.
70%Smaller packaging lets us fit up to 70 per cent more iPhone 12 boxes per shipping pallet.
Siri runs on clean energy. Any questions?
Apple services are powered by renewable electricity.
Our data centres are filled with servers that help run your favourite Apple apps and services like Siri, iMessage and iCloud. These facilities also represent our largest corporate energy loads, which is why we use 100 per cent renewable electricity to power them. So no matter how many questions you ask Siri, every answer will be as clean as the last.
100% recycled aluminium.1000% here for it.
Using recycled aluminium in device enclosures lowers their overall carbon impact.
Daisy wants a piece of your iPhone.
Recycled iPhone materials are the building blocks for new devices.
Every Apple product contains materials that can be used to build new products. And research from our Material Recovery Lab in Texas is helping us reclaim more of those building blocks with transformative tools and technologies. Our own disassembly robots, Daisy and Dave, take apart iPhone devices and components to enable the recovery of materials like rare earth elements, steel and tungsten. These materials make it back to the raw materials marketplace so that we, and others, can use recycled materials for the next generation of products.
1T1 tonne of iPhone components removed by Daisy contains as much gold and copper as 150 tonnes of mined ore.
39K39,000 tonnes of e‑waste were diverted from landfills in 2020.
200/hrDaisy can recover materials from 15 different iPhone models at a rate of 200 devices per hour.
More power.To you.
Clean energy works best when shared.
Now that Apple Inc. runs on 100 per cent clean energy, we’ve turned our efforts to democratising access to renewable electricity around the world. Since 2019, our Power for Impact program has funded projects with clear carbon, ecological and social benefits. Solar projects in the Philippines, Thailand and South Africa help provide cost-effective clean energy to us and to communities facing energy access challenges. And this year we announced our investment in the world’s largest onshore wind turbines in Denmark. We’re powering people and progress one renewable energy project at a time.
152kW152 kilowatts of solar power and 830 kilowatt hours of storage systems in Diepsloot, South Africa, deliver power to 3600 households.
90%90 per cent of the renewable energy for Apple facilities comes from Apple‑created projects.
20KApple’s wind turbines in Esbjerg, Denmark, produce enough energy each year to power almost 20,000 homes.
Apple Inc. Officially in the green.
Since 2018, Apple’s stores, offices and data centres have run on 100 per cent renewable energy. Today all our operations are carbon-neutral too.
There’s always more to do.
Our environmental efforts go beyond carbon.
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No Mercury No PVC No Beryllium No BFR
Products created with safety in mind.
Apple focuses on safety in product designs and strives to protect the people who design, make, use and recycle our products. We’re conducting industry-leading work to map, test and switch to safer chemicals in our products and manufacturing processes. The materials in Apple products are tested to evaluate their compliance with our list of regulated substances. We’re in the process of collecting the chemical composition of all the materials in our products to further assess their effect on human health and the environment. Today more than 700 parts and material suppliers share chemical information with Apple.
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Apple’s commitment to water runs deep.
Using water wisely, wherever we are.
Water is a precious resource. It’s also a community resource, which is why we’re committed to reducing, reusing and returning as much water as possible to the local environments where we work. Our operations use water in many different ways, from relatively low‑impact retail stores to data centres and suppliers’ manufacturing facilities, which rely more heavily on water for cooling and processing. We’re taking several steps to reduce our water impact, starting with selecting the right sites and designing for water efficiency and reuse. We’re also expanding our use of alternative water sources like recycled water, rainwater and condensate. Finally, we are engaging with external stakeholders in the places we operate to ensure that our water stewardship plans meet local shared water challenges.
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Our trees work for a living.
Paper packaging you can feel good about.
We have successfully closed the loop on our paper supply chain. Since 2017, 100 per cent of the wood fibre in our paper and packaging comes from recycled or responsible sources.2 When virgin fibre is needed, we source wood from responsibly managed forests. Through partnership with The Conservation Fund and World Wildlife Fund, we have protected and improved the management of over 1 million acres of working forests in the United States and China. And when forests thrive, so do local communities and wildlife.
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Durability you could
fallfall for.Built to last as long as you love it.
Durability is central to Apple’s product design. Our goal is to build long-lasting products that you can rely on to handle the rigours of everyday use. At the Reliability Testing Lab, our engineers design customised, automated jigs that recreate the repetitive actions and interactions a device might undergo, such as repeatedly pressing an individual key. Free software updates can also increase product longevity by offering access to new features and functionality for both the latest devices and older ones. And when repairs are needed, we provide easy access to high-quality repairs through Apple retail stores, through our worldwide network of over 5,000 Apple Authorised Service Providers and through shipment to Apple Repair Centres. This year, our Independent Repair Provider program has grown to include more than 1,500 providers across the United States, Canada and Europe, and it has expanded service capabilities to include Mac in addition to iPhone.
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Working towards a waste-free world
At final assembly sites, nothing goes to waste.
Apple’s Zero Waste Program for suppliers provides support to eliminate waste going to landfills through reduction, reuse and recycling. We started by focusing on our highest waste producers: final assembly facilities. Apple has already achieved Zero Waste certifications for all established final assembly facilities across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV and Beats.