Apple launched a program called ‘ Recycling and Reuse ‘ which aims to disarm iPhones old to take advantage of all the components that can be reused.
in a report ‘environmental Responsibility’, the Cupertino company revealed that in 2015 Apple recovered more than USD 50 million in gold, copper, aluminum, silver, nickel, zinc and lead .
in gold, he recovered nearly a ton, and the value of the metal in the market would be about USD 40 million. Copper they rescued 1,300 tonnes for a total of USD 6.4 million; aluminum over 2,000 tonnes for $ 3.2 million; and silver nearly 3 tons for USD 1.6 million.
In addition, the company accumulated nearly 40,000 tons of electronic waste program, totaling the 71% of total weight of smartphones sold Apple since 2007.
a little over a month ago, the company had introduced Liam, a specialized disarm iPhones and reduce electronic waste robot. Originally the company had said that Liam would focus on recycling headsets iPhone 6 , but Apple will expand the system to disarm different models and recover more resources.
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