Business Standard 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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