{"id":550,"date":"2023-04-14T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=550"},"modified":"2023-04-14T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:28:10","slug":"apple-announces-plans-to-use-100-recycled-cobalt-in-batteries-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/550","title":{"rendered":"Apple announces plans to use 100% recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0On April 13,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0announced an environmental-related measure to advance the use of renewable materials in its products, including a new 2025 goal: to use 100% of all Apple-designed batteries recycled cobalt.\u00a0In addition, by 2025, magnets in Apple devices will use entirely recycled rare earth elements, and all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100% recycled tin solder and 100% recycled gold plating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136371.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" width=\"599\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136371-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=apple\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=apple\">Apple<\/a> has significantly advanced the use of 100% certified recycled cobalt in the past three years, which will make it possible to use this material in all Apple-designed batteries by 2025.\u00a0A quarter of the cobalt in Apple products will come from recycled materials in 2022, up from 13% the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Apple will greatly promote the use of important recycled metals. Currently, more than two-thirds of the aluminum, nearly three-quarters of the rare earths, and more than 95% of the tungsten in Apple devices come from 100% recycled materials.\u00a0This rapid progress brings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\">Apple<\/a> closer to the goal of &#8220;using only recycled and renewable materials in all products&#8221;, and also advances the company&#8217;s goal of making every product carbon neutral by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136372.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136372.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2136372-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth mentioning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Apple\">Apple<\/a> has also carried out innovative research and development work for the disassembly and recycling at the end of the product life cycle.\u00a0For example, Daisy, an iPhone disassembly robot, can separate batteries from other components, allowing professional recycling agencies to recover other materials such as cobalt metal and lithium metal.\u00a0According to Apple&#8217;s estimates, since 2019, more than 11,000 kilograms of cobalt metal has been recovered from batteries extracted from Daisy and returned to the secondary market.\u00a0In addition, Daisy can help recover rare earth elements, which are mostly lost in the traditional electronics recycling process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0On April 13,\u00a0Apple\u00a0announced an environmental-related measure to advance the use of renewable materials in its products, including a new 2025 goal: to use 100% of all Apple-designed batteries recycled cobalt.\u00a0In addition, by 2025, magnets in Apple devices will use entirely recycled rare earth elements, and all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100% recycled tin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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