Apple intends to use world's first low-carbon aluminium in iPhone SE
Tech giant Apple intends to use
the world's first low-carbon aluminium in iPhone SE, the company announced on
Thursday.
With the help of $4.7 billion investments in green bonds, Apple could
jump-start the development of new low-carbon manufacturing and recycling
technologies, the company said in a statement.
Since 2016, Apple has issued
three Green Bonds aimed to accelerate progress toward the company's goal to
become carbon neutral across its supply chain by 2030.
As part of this work, Apple announced it is purchasing direct
carbon-free aluminium from Canada-based ELYSIS - the company behind the world's
first direct carbon-free aluminium smelting process.
The aluminium is the first to be manufactured at industrial scale
outside of a laboratory without creating any direct carbon emissions during the
smelting process. The breakthrough technology produces oxygen instead of
greenhouse gases, and the achievement marks a major milestone in the production
of aluminium, one of the world's most widely used metals.
Apple said it intends for the material, produced by using
hydropower, to be introduced in the iPhone SE.
"Apple is committed to leaving the planet better than we
found it, and our Green Bonds are a key tool to drive our environmental efforts
forward," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of Environment,
Policy, and Social Initiatives, in the statement.
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