Apple's gold hunt - recovers over a ton of gold worth nearly £28m from recycled devices

Apple is on a gold hunt and, in a single year, has successfully recovered more than one ton of gold from its recycled electronic devices. Small amounts of gold are, at times, used in high-end consumer electronics because it conducts well and does not corrode easily.
Old and unwanted iPhones, iPads and Macs handed in to the Cupertino firm during 2015 yielded gold, the precious metal, worth nearly £28m. Apple's has a recycling program that pays cash for unwanted devices. Such devices are either stripped down or refurbished.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 18 April 2016.

Apart from gold, Apple has managed to recovered 10.4m kilos of steel, two million kilos of aluminium, 1.4 million kilos of copper and 3,000 kilos of silver.
In its annual recycling report, Apple has indicated that its efforts are aimed at keeping electronic devices out of landfills so that the precious resources they contain can be reused. This helps the environment also because, in these are properly recycled, they will not pose a threat to human health or the environment. Its aim is to use 100% renewable energy to power its facilities around the world and, it helps its suppliers in China and elsewhere to move towards using clean energy.


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