Apple close to being 100% powered by renewables

Apple has confirmed that 93 per cent of its facilities worldwide are powered by renewable energy.

The company’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Lisa Jackson, made the announcement at Apple’s ‘Loop You In’ event on Monday.

Apple has been aiming to run 100 per cent of its facilities including retail stores, data centres, and manufacturing facilities using clean energy since 2014.

The technology giant, based in Cupertino, California, announced two years ago that 100 per cent of the energy used in its US operations was sourced from renewables.

Ms Jackson also announced the relaunch of Apple’s reuse and recycling programme, ‘Apple Renew’, and said that “recycling an Apple product should be as easy as using one.”

Apple also introduced its ‘Liam’ robot on Monday with 29 arms built to disassemble iPhones so that components and materials can be reused and recycled and the company said that the robot can take apart over 1.2 million phones in a year.