Apple ultimately aims to make products with just recycled resources

Apple is focusing on environmental issues,Robot "Liam" to disassemble and recycle iPhone automaticallyWe are using various resources to reproduce. In the Environmental Responsibility Progress Report of 2017, the goal is to make the supply flow "closed loop".

Environment - Apple (Japan)
https://www.apple.com/jp/environment/


Environmental Responsibility Report - 2017 Progress Report, Covering Fiscal Year 2016
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Conventionally, the supply flow (supply chain) of electronic equipment has become linear, processing raw materials, producing products, using customers, finally becoming electric / electronic equipment waste ...... But what Apple aims for is to loop the chain by using the customer after reusing it rather than discarding it so that the product can be created again.


The robot "Liam" for disassembling the iPhone is introduced for that "goal".

Apple 's robot "Liam" to disassemble and recycle iPhone automatically performs work with Barbary - GIGAZINE


Liam comes from 100 thousand iPhone 6
· Aluminum: 1.9 tons
· Copper: 800 kg
· Cobalt: 550 kg
· Tin: 55 kg
· Rare earth (rare earth element): 24 kg
· Silver: 7 kg
Tungsten: 3.5 kg
Tantalum: 2.5 kg
· Platinums: 0.4 kg
· Gold: 0.3 kg
It has the ability to recover.

Actually, the recycled resources are also used considerably in the product, and all the tin used for iPhone 6s is a recyclable resource, mostly it is a solder of a logic board.

In addition, it is stated that it is necessary to invest in research and other technical solutions for resources that have not yet established reuse technology, and you can see how Apple focuses on this field.