Last year, the Apple company presented the Liam robot to the whole world, it was created with the idea of quickly disassembling the iPhone terminals in order to recover the parts from them. A Liam robot, like the one in the video clip below, can disassemble an iPhone in just 11 seconds, an extremely short period of time to remove all the parts from it.
According to the Apple company, annually 1.2 million iPhone terminals can be disassembled by a Liam robot, so a good part of those recovered from customers are disassembled. Those from Apple announced last year that they have such a robot in California, but according to a document published this year, there is a Liam in Europe as well.
The activation of a second Liam robot in Europe is an interesting surprise, but also a sign of the fact that Apple takes a lot of iPhone terminals from customers on the continent. By disassembling 1.2 million iPhone terminals annually using Liam in Europe, the Apple company recovers a lot of money by reusing the components.
Below you can see what kind of materials the Apple company recovers for every 10.000 disassembled iPhone terminals, and this is how you find out how Apple saves money from the iPhone terminals recovered from customers.
"For every 10,000 phones that Liam disassembles, we have the potential to recover 190 kg of aluminum, 80 kg of copper, 0.13 kg of gold, 0.04 kg of platinum group metals, 0.70 kg of silver, 5.5 kg of tin, and 2.4 kg of rare earth elements."
