Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 35 Expanding our use of recycled content Prioritizing our efforts Maintaining high standards for materials is an essential independent third-party audits on other materials used Apple is committed to Our progress on materials continued in 2022 as we’ve Our recycled and renewable efforts continue to focus element of this work. Our recycled and renewable in our products, such as graphite, nickel, and copper. setting the highest standards moved closer to creating a circular supply chain for on 14 m aterials that we’ve prioritized based on a broad material specifications follow standards established by As we build supply chains for recycled materials, we’re for responsible sourcing several materials. With tin, we first proved in 2017 that range of environmental, social, and supply chain impacts. the international community. 35 Through this process, also partnering with the smelters and refiners identified of the materials used in we could use 100 percent recycled tin for the solder on (These are outlined in detail in our Material Impact Profiles we’re able to confirm that a material has been recycled through this process. our products. For more information, read our the main logic board (where the majority of tin is found) white paper. 33 ) Some of the materials prioritized through or comes from a renewable source — one that can “People and Environment of iPhone 6s and in 2022, we’re now using 100 percent this process include lower-mass but higher-impact continually produce without depleting the earth’s Industry collaboration in Our Supply Chain” recycled tin on many flexible printed circuit boards used materials. Our priority materials include aluminum, cobalt, resources. 36 We approach materials from new sources As we focus on responsible sourcing and the use of progress report and our across almost all newly launched products. This resulted copper, glass, gold, lithium, paper, plastics, rare earth with the same rigor, evaluating each for the safety of the recycled content, we continue to engage with multiple “Conflict Minerals Report” in the total shipped recycled tin increasing to 38 percent elements, steel, tantalum, tin, tungsten, and zinc, and they materials’ chemistry. This process allows us to scale our industry initiatives. These include our role on the steering at apple.com/supplier- across all product lines in 2022 — up from 30 percent account for 87 percent of the total product mass shipped use of materials that are better for the environment and committee of the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI). responsibility . in 2021. We took a similar approach with gold. Across to our customers in 2022. 34 safe for use in our products. This coalition is one of the most commonly used all products, we expanded our use of certified recycled resources for companies — from a range of industries — gold — from the gold plating on the main logic board on Our teams are overcoming many obstacles to creating Responsible sourcing of materials that are working to address mineral sourcing issues in iPhone to other product main logic boards and flexible closed loop supply chains, including material performance This diligence carries over to sourcing. We obtain our their supply chains. We are also a board member of the printed circuit boards — increasing certified recycled gold and traceability. This is possible through our work with a resources responsibly, regardless of whether we’re Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) content to approximately 4 percent across all products diverse group of partners. We’ve been able to design a using primary or recycled materials. This approach is a and co-lead the electronics program. PACE is a global that shipped in 2022 — up from just 1 percent in 2021. 30 new, 100 percent recycled aluminum alloy that meets our necessary complement to our environmental efforts — collaboration platform for public and private decision These and other innovations helped us increase our use rigorous performance standards. And we’ve improved and it draws from the same reliance on international makers to share a vision, best practices, and innovations of recycled and renewable content to 20 percent of all the our ability to track key materials like batteries within our standards. Our standards for R esponsible Sourcing of toward a circular economy. Apple is a co-champion of material shipped in products in 2022. 31 supply chain, end-to-end. Materials are based on leading international guidance, the First Movers Coalition for Aluminum, whose focus including the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on is to aggregate demand signals for ultra low carbon We’ve also achieved several milestones with copper Barriers to our progress remain — including challenges Business and Human Rights and the Organisation for technologies and materials. We also collaborate with and zinc. For iPad models introduced in October 2022, within our control and those outside Apple’s direct Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Due other industry organizations, including the Aluminum we’re using 100 percent recycled copper foil in the main influence. Addressing these requires a collective Diligence Guidance. In 2022, 100 percent of the identified Stewardship Initiative, to promote transparency across logic board. For Mac Studio and Studio Display, we’ve response. But through collaboration within the material tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold (3TG), cobalt, and lithium supply chains and implement additional commodity- developed a brass alloy using 100 percent recycled space, we can achieve impact felt beyond our business. smelters and refiners in Apple’s supply chain completed specific auditing and due diligence systems. copper and zinc for use in the AC inlet and cable prongs. The supply chains we’re helping create serve more than assessments to verify compliance with our standards, and Finally, since last year, we’ve nearly doubled our use of just our needs — they help promote the availability of to aid in identifying social, environmental, human rights, Using recycled and renewable materials helps lower our recycled cobalt in batteries to 27 percent across iPhone, competitively priced, quality recycled and renewable and governance risks. We also map other materials in our carbon footprint, moving us closer to our climate goals. iPad, and Mac devices year over year, bringing the total materials across geographies. products such as mica, copper, graphite, and nickel, and, To fulfill the transition to these materials, we’re working recycled cobalt shipped in 2022 to 25 percent . 32 before production, evaluate suppliers of new materials with policy makers to support international standards that for compliance with our requirements. We also continue enable the use of these materials globally. to map, conduct additional due diligence, and facilitate