Last month, Apple announced its new target to utilize 100% recycled cobalt in its batteries by 2025. This is in line with its plans to increase the use of recycled materials in its products. The company also revealed that by the same year, all printed circuit boards designed by Apple would use 100% recycled gold plating and tin soldering while magnets in all its devices would use recycled rare earth elements.
Last year, Apple increased the use of recycled metals. Currently, the company sources more than 95% of all tungsten, almost three-quarters of all rare earth metals and more than one-half of all aluminum in Apple products from 100% recycled materials.
Daisy, the company’s iPhone disassembly robot, separates batteries from other components and allows recyclers to recover cobalt and other materials such as lithium. Cobalt is an essential metal used in the batteries of a range of consumer electronics, including Apple devices. This metal’s properties include its high-energy density, which allows it to meet the company’s standards for safety and longevity. Apple-designed batteries found in the iPad, iPhone, MacBook and Apple Watch among other products, account for a majority of the company’s use of cobalt.
The significant progress Apple has made brings its closer to its objective of making all its products using renewable and recycled materials, in addition to advancing its goal to make all products carbon neutral. Apple CEO Tim Cook,stated that the company’s environmental work was essential to all that Apple made, noting that it remained focused on innovating while protecting Earth.
In addition to reducing its reliance on newly mined materials, the company is also looking into ways to support communities whose livelihoods depend on mining. Apple has partnered with vocational education programs that teach members of mining communities new skills and help them pursue new opportunities as well as the Fund for Global Human Rights to offer support for front-line human and environmental rights defenders.
Apple is also innovating the future of recycling, with its work pioneering new research and development for end-of-life disassembly and recycling. It is party to various efforts including partnerships with the Material Recovery Lab in Austin, Texas, and other leading research institutions.
Thus far, the company has prioritized 14 materials based on human rights, environment and supply impact that together account for roughly 90% of the material shipped in its products, namely cobalt, aluminum, glass, copper, plastics, gold, lithium, paper, zinc, rare earth elements, tungsten, steel, tin and tantalum.
The shift to using recycled minerals by major companies such as Apple partly shows how stiff the competition for freshly mined minerals has gotten over the years, and this shows that as the minerals become more scarce, extraction companies such as Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (TSX.V: BMR) (OTCQB: BTRMF) could see heightened interest in their stock.
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