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Apple, 40 million dollars of gold recovered by recycling iPhone

Inside the ninth annual "Environmental Responsibility Apple" Report you can test it out by the company in relation to the protection of the environment. Apple imposes three main priorities: the use of renewable energy, safer materials and the reuse of materials. Within the report we also read that its recycling program has enabled the company to recover more than 40,000 tons of materials, including gold valued at approximately $ 40 million.

It is not a novelty that the gold is commonly used in consumer electronics on printed circuit boards due to its low electrical resistance and, unlike the copper, its resistance to corrosion. In most applications a thin layer of gold coat a thicker layer of copper, another material recovered naturally in abundance by the company due to its recycling program: the report is read the various quantities.

Apple has recovered 1,360 tons of copper, worth more than $ 6 million, along with other materials such as silver, nickel, aluminum, steel, lead, zinc, tin, cobalt, glass and plastic. In recent months the company has begun to use Liam for the recycling of devices. The street sweeper robots had been announced in the press conference in which they were revealed iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro.

Thanks to Liam could be achieved results far superior in recycling of devices: a regime since February, Liam is part of a complex robotic modules that allow you to disassemble an iPhone in just 11 seconds. This day can only disassemble the iPhone 6, but it is likely that, given the company's efforts geared to the environment, Apple will manage to improve functioning and make it more efficient in his duties.

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