Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 52 Zero waste All waste that gets sent to landfill Reducing waste at our to reusable alternatives. These certifications also reflect comes with costs. These can be corporate facilities efforts working and coordinating with local partners, from measured in the resources and composters to specialty recyclers capable of handling We’re reducing the amount of waste generated in our specific waste streams, like plastic wraps and foams. By emissions that go into discarded corporate operations and directing more to recycling partnering with these providers, we’re able to support the materials. And, too often, the most programs — an effort that has continued since launching local economies engaging in recycling and composting as vulnerable communities around our Zero Waste Program in 2018. Initially we focused on an alternative to municipal waste disposal programs. the world carry a disproportionate U.S. campuses and retail locations. Since then, we’ve grown in the U.S. and around the world while remaining Promoting material reuse, composting, and burden of these costs and others committed to sending zero waste to landfill. waste diversion across our corporate and associated with waste disposal. We’re retail locations working to change this by prioritizing In 2022, recycling and composting efforts allowed us to As our company grows and changes, we’ve prioritized waste-free operations at our own achieve a waste diversion rate of 71 percent — up from finding opportunities to recycle construction and 68 percent in 2021 — limiting landfill waste from our demolition waste. In 2022, we achieved a waste facilities as well as those of our global operations to about 16, 000 m etric tons. 68 Despite diversion rate of 83 percent — approximately manufacturing suppliers. occupancy increases during our transition from COVID- 23, 500 m etric tons — from corporate office and data related temporary closures, our overall waste generated center construction and demolition projects through At our offices, retail locations, data centers, and remained l ow. recycling and source separation efforts. We expanded construction sites, we’re implementing systems and source separation efforts for our corporate office and approaches to avoid sending waste to landfill. We’re We haven’t interrupted our efforts to make progress data center construction projects — from 7. 2 percent asking our manufacturing suppliers to do the same. on waste diversion since achieving our first zero-waste participation in 2021 to 36 percent across projects Our focus is on eliminating waste generated during certification, UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill validation, in in 2022. The locations using this approach saw a manufacturing and engaging with local specialty recyclers 2015 for our campus in Cork, Ireland. In 2023, our Taiwan 10 percent higher overall diversion rate. An example of and composters to redirect materials from landfills. This Technology Center became the second Apple facility the effectiveness of source separation is our new office requires innovation and collaboration with local partners to receive the UL Solutions Zero Waste to Landfill in Battersea Power Station in London, United Kingdom. to make the best use of our resources. We measure our validation. 69 And our data center in Viborg, Denmark, Our team there achieved a 98 percent diversion rate of progress in the amount of waste that we divert at the became the third facility to receive TRUE certification construction waste, including 300 tons of drywall, one- source and by our ability to protect the communities in 2023, joining our data centers in Mesa, Arizona, and fifth of which was directed to agricultural uses such as where we and our suppliers operate. Prineville, Oregon. 70 These facilities achieved TRUE mushroom cultivation and farming. The project reused Platinum, the highest certification level. TRUE recognizes timber onsite and donated key construction materials, facilities that divert more than 90 percent of waste including plasterboard, for local uses. The location also for recycling, compost, or reuse. To accomplish this, recycled personal protective equipment used during we improved waste separation through infrastructure construction and build-out. upgrades and moved away from single-use materials In 2023, our Viborg, Denmark, facility became the third to receive TRUE Platinum certification, which requires more than 90 percent of waste from a facility to be recycled, composted, or redirected for reuse.