Apple’s water figures, like its renewable-energy claims, split into layers rather than one number. A combined total covers Apple and its suppliers together. A narrower figure covers a specific certified subset of Apple’s own data centers. And a single figure covers one manufacturing process for one product. Apple’s April 2026 environmental progress report states all…
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Apple's Recycled-Material Commitments: 30 Percent Across Everything Shipped in 2025
Apple says 30 percent of the material across every product it shipped in 2025 was recycled content, the highest company-wide figure it has published. That number sits above a set of standing material commitments Apple applies across its current product line rather than to any single device: full recycled cobalt in its batteries, full recycled…
Apple's Zero Waste Certifications: Five Data Centers, Four Campuses, One Store
Apple holds TRUE Zero Waste Certification, a recognized green-building credential, at nine of its own properties: five data centers and four corporate campuses, all at the platinum tier, plus one retail store, Apple Fifth Avenue in New York. That sits alongside a separate, larger effort: a Zero Waste Program that Apple runs with 400 supplier…
Apple's Renewable Energy Claims: Corporate Operations and Manufacturing Are Not the Same Number
Apple’s renewable-energy claims cover two different things, and the company’s own numbers keep them apart. One set of figures describes electricity Apple procures for its own operations. A second, larger set describes the manufacturing supply chain that builds its products, run through a separate program with its own suppliers. Apple’s April 2026 environmental progress report…
Apple's Climate Target: The 2030 Deadline and the 60 Percent It Says It Has Reached
Apple says the greenhouse gas emissions across its entire carbon footprint sat 60 percent below 2015 levels as of 2025, and that the figure held steady from 2024 even in what the company calls a year of significant business growth. That number anchors Apple’s newest environmental progress report, published April 16, 2026, and it sits…
iPhone 18 Pro's Environmental Report: The Manufacturing Figures That Never Reach a Web Page
Apple’s Product Environmental Report for iPhone 18 Pro states that every final assembly site is certified Zero Waste to Landfill, that half of manufacturing electricity comes from renewable sources, and that the packaging is entirely fiber-based. None of those three figures appears on iPhone 18 Pro’s product page, its September 9 announcement, or its tech…
iPhone 18 Pro's Recycled Materials, Component by Component: What Apple's Environmental Report Lists
Apple’s Product Environmental Report for iPhone 18 Pro lists nine separate recycled-material figures for named internal parts, each with its own percentage. That level of component-by-component detail never appears on the phone’s marketing pages, which stop at a single headline number: 40 percent recycled content overall. iPhone Duo's own environmental report states a lower 35…
iPhone 18 Pro Carbon Figures: One Storage Step Costs More Than Moving Up to the Pro Max
Apple gives every iPhone 18 Pro configuration its own carbon figure, and read side by side they say something the price list does not: choosing more storage adds more emissions than choosing the bigger phone. A storage step adds 9 kg of CO2e on the 6.3-inch Pro, while moving to the 6.9-inch Pro Max at…
iPhone 18 Pro Recycled Materials Explained: 85% Recycled Aluminum, 100% Recycled Cobalt and 40% Recycled Content Overall
Apple says the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are built with 40 percent recycled content overall, including an enclosure made from 85 percent recycled aluminum and a battery that uses 100 percent recycled cobalt. The packaging is 100 percent fiber-based. Those are the four environmental figures in Apple’s release, and they are…