Apple this week announced its serious intention to completely
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By 2025, the company will useexclusively recycled cobalt. The decision is part of a plan to make all of its consumer electronics products carbon neutral by the end of this decade.
By the way, in 2022, about a quarter of allThe cobalt used in Apple products has been recycled. And in 2021, this figure was 13% lower. Today, the company sources more than two-thirds of the aluminum, about three-quarters of all rare earth materials and about 95% of all tungsten materials in its products from recycled materials. Cobalt-based batteries are next in line.
The fact is that cobalt mining pollutes air, soil and water and can cause health problems for workers who carry out this mining.
In addition, Apple announced that magnetsIts various types of devices will use recycled rare earth elements, and its patented circuit board design will be based on recycled tin soldering and gold plating. The technology giant also abandoned the use of Russian-made tungsten, tantalum and gold in its production.