{"id":55793,"date":"2016-04-18T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55793"},"modified":"2016-04-18T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:31:04","slug":"apple-sitting-on-a-goldmine-quite-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/apple-sitting-on-a-goldmine-quite-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, sitting on a goldmine, quite literally…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While you might not expect Apple’s Environmental Responsibility Report<\/a> to be that interesting, you’d be surprised.\u00a0One nugget of interest was that Apple managed to produce one metric tonne of gold through recycling old iPhones in 2015.<\/p>\n

That’s the equivalent of \u00a328 million worth of gold!\u00a0<\/strong>
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Now who said recycling was boring…<\/em><\/p>\n

And it wasn’t just gold that Apple managed to recycle, they also produced three tonnes\u00a0of silver and 1,300 tonnes of copper.<\/p>\n

A recycling scheme worth it’s weight in gold<\/h3>\n

The recycled devices were part of the Apple Renew<\/a> scheme – where people are encouraged to hand in their old iPhone for money off a new Apple device.<\/p>\n

A large part of the recycling is done by Apple’s prototype Liam robots, which you can watch deftly dismantling an iPhone in the video below:<\/p>\n