Apple is Taking the Initative to Manufacture Apple Products from 100% Recycled Materials

Back in 2017, Apple planned a “mining-free” future by manufacturing Apple products out of 100% recycled materials. Many experts recently added that Apple would have a way of doing this, but they don’t know how to do this right now.

According to a 2017 report from Apple’s environmental leader Lisa Jackson, she stated that,

It sounds crazy, but we’re working on it. We’re moving toward a closed-loop supply chain. One day we’d like to be able to build new products with just recycled materials, including your old products....

We’re actually doing something we rarely do, which is announce a goal before we’ve completely figured out how to do it. So we’re a little nervous, but we also think it’s really important, because as a sector we believe it’s where technology should be going.

This implies that “closed-loop” means Apple is reusing components and parts of iOS devices to new iPhones and iPads. The change is great for Apple’s environmental protection laws, but it’s a struggle in the beginning. Closed-loop is the opposite of “open-loop”, which means selling recycled iPhone parts in open markets.

Top-notch electronics repair company and website iFixit said that in their recent dissection of the MacBook Air 2018, the casing is made out of 100% recycled aluminum. In an email from Gizmodo and iFixit, Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit states that,

“Their milling-machine approach to manufacturing is incredibly wasteful, so they’d have to recapture the metal or it wouldn’t be economical,” 

This is significant because it helps Apple manufacture products faster and cheaper, including saving the environment. Apple is making products in a mining-free environment by refraining from using mills to manufacture devices. The company is taking the initiative to restore the aluminum from recycled products to new devices.

In conclusion, Apple will be manufacturing products entirely out of recycled components and refraining usage of milling machines in assembling products. Last spring, Apple introduced a recycling robot named Daisy, which is another sorting and disassembly robot. Now this year will be another change in Apple for recycling products, so what do you think about this?