Apple said on Thursday it will buy its
first industrial-size batch of carbon-free aluminum tio use in its low-cost
iPhone SE, as it steps up efforts to reduce carbon footprint from the metal it
uses heavily in product casings.
Details about the size or cost of the
purchase were not disclosed.
The iPhone maker has been taking steps to
reduce its use of the carbon-intensive metal that emits direct greenhouse gases
from the smelting process and has spiked consumer, activist, and investor
dissent due to its environmental impact.
Apple first bought a smaller batch of the
lab-made metal in 2019 from Elysis, a Montreal-based joint venture between two
of the world's biggest aluminium suppliers - Alcoa and Rio Tinto. It had used
the metal in its 16-inch MacBook Pro.
Elysis had originally planned to
commercialise its technology, which uses a ceramic anode to make aluminium and
emits only oxygen, by 2024. © Reuters
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