Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 37 FEATURE Progress across our priority materials We’re making progress toward our Key challenges to developing circular supply Traceability Material Key challenges Progress goal of sourcing only recycled or chains include: Information about the source of materials — whether Aluminum Regulatory barriers We’re continuing to scale our new, 100 percent recycled aluminum alloy — which incorporates renewable materials in our products: Technical properties mined, recycled, or renewable — might not be Technical properties recycled content without compromising performance — across all products. Overall, in 2022, The properties of a recycled or renewable material readily available. Scale 67 percent of the aluminum we shipped came from recycled sources — up from 59 percent in in 2022, 20 percent of the material 2021. 41 Of the products introduced during this period, iPad Air (5th generation), Apple Watch we shipped in products came from may differ from the primary material. This needs to be Scale Series 8, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), and MacBook Air with M2 all contain 100 percent accounted for during product design and manufacturing. recycled aluminum in their enclosures. Apple Studio Display contains 100 percent recycled recycled or renewable sources. 37 For example, select recycled plastics differ in properties Materials for a single component can come from aluminum in the stand, and Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) contains 80 percent recycled hundreds of different material suppliers, representing aluminum in the thermal module. Because recycled aluminum can have 1/40th the carbon from other plastics. The composition of other recycled an exponential increase in effort as we scale the use footprint of aluminum from primary sources, this supports our pursuit of low-carbon design. 42 We’re also accelerating our ambition: materials can also be impacted by some level of of high-quality recycled or renewable materials across Our recycled material comes from several sources, including scrap from the manufacture of We recently announced that by contamination during the recycling process. Apple products and other postindustrial sources. And our product claims are supported by components and products. suppliers who have taken the additional step of getting their recycled content certified by an 2025, we plan to use 100 percent independent, third party. recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed Availability and access Regulatory barriers Supply of recycled and renewable materials can be Transboundary movement regulations — created Cobalt Regulatory barriers In 2022, 25 percent of the cobalt shipped in our products — nearly double the amount shipped batteries; 38 100 percent recycled tin constrained by the limited availability of scrap sources Availability and access in 2021 — came from certified recycled sources on a mass-balance basis, including both soldering and 100 percent recycled or production of renewable content. When supply exists to establish critically important community and Scale postindustrial scrap and post consumer scrap from end-of-life batteries. The cobalt from in some locations around the world, new suppliers need environmental protections — can have the unintended iPhone batteries disassembled by Daisy is being returned to the market, making the material gold plating of all Apple-designed consequence of inhibiting the ability to recover and available to others. And in 2023, Apple committed to using 100 percent recycled cobalt in all rigid and flexible printed circuit to be incorporated into supply chains for the material to move materials to best-in-class recyclers or refiners Apple-designed batteries by 2025. 43 be accessed. for use in new products. Read about our support of boards; 39 and 100 percent recycled Copper Technical properties Electronics applications require the use of high-performance copper. Yet even as challenges rare earth elements in all magnets Supply chains policies in our feature on circular economy policy that Supply chains remain in identifying quality scrap sources, we’re making progress. In March 2022, we Recycled or renewable content may not be easily enable circular supply chains while improving social Scale introduced 100 percent recycled copper for the first time in any Apple product: Apple Studio across all products. 40 and environmental protections. Display and Mac Studio both use 100 percent recycled copper in the brass prongs of the accessible on the market, requiring the development of power cord plug and AC inlet. We also continue testing 100 percent recycled copper in other new supply chains. applications to evaluate its technical properties and performance across product lines. Copper Below is an overview of our progress is also a key material in printed circuit boards. For iPad (10th generation), introduced in October across the 14 m aterials that we’re 2022, we’re using 100 percent recycled copper foil in the main logic board — Apple’s first use of standalone recycled copper. prioritizing for recycled or renewable sourcing. As we work toward our Glass Technical properties Recycled sources are scarce for the quality of glass that we use in our products — and Availability and access performance of this material is key to the durability of our final products. We’re working hard goals, we’ll continue to be open about Scale to identify recycled content and incorporate it into the material that we use to produce glass the challenges that we encounter. parts. The cover glass and back glass of all iPhone and iPad devices contain recycled glass. By incorporating quality scrap in our applications, we also help keep glass at its highest-purity use for future recovery.