- General
- April 18, 2019
- 4 minutes read
Apple Launches New Recycling Lab In Austin
image: Apple Apple has announced it has opened a 9,000 square foot recycling lab in Austin, Texas that is says will apply…
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Apple has announced it has opened a 9,000 square foot recycling lab in Austin, Texas that is says will apply machine learning and robotics to improve on traditional methods to recycle products. The new lab will work with Apple’s engineering teams and persons from academia to “propose solutions to today’s industry recycling challenges” according to Apple’s statement.
Apple also recently revealed it has nearly doubled the number of its suppliers that have committed to run production of its devices on renewable energy, now a total of 44 suppliers. The iPhone maker has allocated $2.5 billion in green bonds so far and says it — along with its suppliers — participated in clean energy generation that roughly equaled the amount of electricity needed to power 600,000 US homes just last year.
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| Apple’s recycling robot, Daisy.
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Apple has now quadrupled the number of locations US customers can send their unused iPhones to be disassembled by its recycling robot, Daisy. The company says Daisy is capable of disassembling 1.2 million devices per year, at a rate of 200 iPhones per hour. It has received nearly 1 million devices through various trade-in programs.
