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Reducing our packaging and sourcing renewable energy, Apple is moving forward into the new century!



We have been making great progress with our products materials, we have transitioned to sourcing only renewable or recycled materials for our products and packaging. With 100% recycled aluminium enclosures in MacBook Air and Mac mini. 100% responsibly sourced wood fiber in all retail packaging, and 14 priority materials for transitioning to 100% recycled or renewable content.

 

We have reduced plastic use in our packaging by 48% in three years. We expanded, to 11 products, our use of 100% recycled tin in the solder on main logic boards. We introduced 82 components with an average of 38% recycled plastic across products released just this year. At Apple we are committed to bringing you products that are sustainable and can last a lifetime, which is why we refurbished more than 7.8 million devices and recycled more than 48,000 metric tons of e-waste in 2019 alone.



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