It may be due to commercial strategies, regulatory requirements or a transformation of its production systems to make it more sustainable, but the fact is that Apple is committed to caring for the environment where it most influences, in the production of the equipment and asks its suppliers for maximum involvement in it.
Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of Environment wants to collaborate with its suppliers to manufacture in a responsible way and reduce their environmental impact, implementing clean energy processes.
The apple company celebrates its advances reached with Chinese suppliers. The first of them is related to glass making, especially the one made for the iPhone and the second is related to the wind energy utilization.
The first step has been made by the company Lens Technology, which is committed to using 100% renewable energy in its glass production at its two current facilities in Changsha, Hunan Province. This plan will materialize from the second half of 2018. Apple's supplier is currently negotiating with local suppliers of wind power.
On the other hand, the company is proud to announce 14 assembly plants with renewable energy in the country, which added to the existing ones, number one hundred. These new plants meet the requirement known as Zero Waste to Landfill Certificate de UL. This regulation implies that all waste is reused or transformed into energy, that is to say, everything necessary is used in manufacturing in one way or another. It is estimated that to date 140.000 tons of waste have been reduced.
Apple's figures in the use of renewable energy is 100% of its activities in China and the United States, which allows an average of 93% in all activities spread throughout the planet.
You can get more information in the section for apple environment that the company puts on its website.