The production of Apple’s new iPhone SE will actually pump oxygen into the atmosphere, due to technology funded by the company’s A$6.25 billion in Green Bonds.
Apple is purchasing direct carbon-free aluminum, in what it calls “a major advancement in smelting technology.”
This technological leap has resulted in the world’s first commercial-purity primary aluminum to be manufactured at industrial scale without creating any direct carbon emissions during the smelting process.
This aluminum was produced using hydropower by ELYSIS, at its Industrial Research and Development Centre in Quebec.
Apple will use this material for the body of its next iPhone SE.
“Apple is committed to leaving the planet better than we found it, and our Green Bonds are a key tool to drive our environmental efforts forward,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives.
“Our investments are advancing the breakthrough technologies needed to reduce the carbon footprint of the materials we use, even as we move to using only recyclable and renewable materials across our products to conserve the earth’s finite resources.”
Apple explains: “The breakthrough technology produces oxygen instead of greenhouse gases, and the achievement marks a major milestone in the production of aluminum, one of the world’s most widely used metals.”
ELYSIS adds: “This is the first time aluminum has been produced at this commercial purity, without any greenhouse gas emission and at industrial scale. The sale to Apple confirms the market’s interest in aluminum produced using our breakthrough ELYSIS carbon-free smelting technology.”
