Apple said on Thursday it will buy its first industrial-size batch of carbon-free aluminum tio use in its low-cost iPhone SE, as it steps up efforts to reduce carbon footprint from the metal it uses heavily in product casings.
Details about the size or cost of the purchase were not disclosed.
The iPhone maker has been taking steps to reduce its use of the carbon-intensive metal that emits direct greenhouse gases from the smelting process and has spiked consumer, activist, and investor dissent due to its environmental impact.
MacBook Pro.
Elysis had originally planned to commercialise its technology, which uses a ceramic anode to make aluminium and emits only oxygen, by 2024.
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