Apple Environmental Responsibility Report
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Eliminating Toxins<br />
The worst toxins and what we’ve done<br />
about them.<br />
After we identify toxins in our products, we reduce them, remove them,<br />
or develop new materials that are safer. These efforts also remove toxins<br />
from our manufacturing and recycling processes, which protects workers<br />
and keeps pollutants out of the land, air, and water.<br />
Beryllium<br />
Eliminated from all new product<br />
designs. Beryllium is found in copper<br />
alloys used to make connectors and<br />
springs.<br />
Mercury<br />
Eliminated in 2009. We use energyefficient,<br />
mercury-free LEDs and OLEDs<br />
instead of mercury-based fluorescent<br />
lamps in all our displays.<br />
Lead<br />
Phased out of display glass and<br />
solder in 2006.<br />
Arsenic<br />
Eliminated from display glass since<br />
2008. Arsenic was traditionally used<br />
in glass.<br />
PVC and Phthalates<br />
Replaced with safer thermoplastic<br />
elastomers.¹⁰ Both are still used by<br />
other companies in power cords<br />
and headphone cables.<br />
Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs)<br />
Eliminated from thousands of parts<br />
such as enclosures, cables, circuit<br />
boards, and connectors in 2008.<br />
We use safer metal hydroxides and<br />
phosphorus compounds in their place.<br />
<strong>Environmental</strong> <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>Report</strong> | 2017 Progress <strong>Report</strong>, Covering FY2016<br />
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