FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5, 2021

Jipeng Wu

Apple’s environmental protection plans

The environmental plans of Apple

1. Apple uses new energy to accomplish its global business.

Apple’s data center uses 100% of its electricity and 96% of the electricity of apple’s global facilities around the whole world is from solar hydro and wind power. Every message that Apple users send and every question that Apple users ask Siri is powered by renewable energy.

2. Reducing the global environmental impact of plastic waste Apple’s products use recycled aluminum.

According to the research, plastics and polystyrene account for 90 percent of marine floating waste, which is devouring the oceans on which humans and other living things depend. Therefore, in order to reduce the production of plastic and polystyrene, Apple has achieved its goal of fully using renewable or recyclable materials for its products and packaging, such as all MacBook Air and Mac mini housing materials that are recyclable aluminum and all retail packaging materials that are wood fibers. So, now for some Apple products, the carbon footprint of the fuselage has been reduced to less than one-sixth of what it was.

3.  Apple set out to build a circular supply chain

Apple’s goal is to create a circular supply chain that uses only renewable resources or recycled materials to make products. Hence, Apple is encouraging more users to recycle their old devices through the Apple Renew program.

4. Apple has worked on product packaging

Apple has nurtured enough sustainable forests to meet their paper needs for product packaging, which currently comes from more than 99 percent of their packaging paper.

As Apple said before, they really devote themselves to making efforts for the environment. They’ve changed the way of producing products. They make difference in product packaging. And they also create a new product supply chain. I believe that more and more companies will make a change under Apple’s effect for protecting our environment.