For Apple, the recycling of products sold worldwide is extremely important, those from Cupertino presenting everything as a fight to protect nature, but in reality we are talking about money saved by reusing recycled components and materials.
Last night Apple revealed to the whole world how many tons of materials it recovered from the iDevice/Macs it took over through its recycling program, and the numbers are impressive considering that we are talking about a lot of money saved in the long term.
According to those from Apple, from all the recycled products it recovered no less than 27 million kilograms of steel, aluminum, glass and other materials used in the manufacture of these products, their reuse saving serious amounts of money for those in Cupertino.
Among all these is also found a ton of gold recovered by the Apple company from the old iDevice/Macs, the total cost of this material being estimated at 40 million dollars by foreign publications, the money being enough to buy many other components.
As part of that, Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold — well over a ton. At the current spot price of $1,229.80 per troy ounce of gold, Apple recovered just under $40 million in gold from old phones and computers.
According to a company that specializes in analyzing smartphone components, such a device uses, on average, 30 milligrams of gold in circuits and other components, and with millions of iPhones recycled annually, it's easy to understand where that came from. ton of gold.
Practically, Apple has demonstrated that recycling is profitable because to these 40 million dollars there are many other tens brought by the recovery of other materials and components from recycled products, the amounts being large enough to continue supporting the effort.
