Apple promises to switch completely to recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

Apple this week announced its serious intention to completely switch to 100% recycled cobalt in all of its batteries in the next few years.

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By 2025, the company will be using exclusively recycled cobalt. The decision is part of a plan to make all its consumer electronic products carbon neutral by the end of this decade.

Incidentally, in 2022 about a quarter of all cobalt used in Apple products was recycled. And back in 2021, that figure was 13% lower. Today, the company gets more than two-thirds of its aluminium, about three-quarters of all rare earth materials and about 95% of all tungsten materials in its products from recycled materials. Cobalt-based batteries are next in line.

The fact is that cobalt mining pollutes the air, soil and water and can cause health problems for the workers who carry out this mining.

In addition, Apple has announced that the magnets in its various types of devices will use recycled rare earth elements, and its patented PCB design will be based on soldering with recycled tin and gilding. The technology giant has also scrapped Russian-made tungsten, tantalum and gold.

Source: Gizmochina