Big announcement, just out, from Apple CEO - Apple will produce its electronics from 100% recycled material, not from virgin mining.
It's reported from Apple's just-released 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report. It's bound to hit all the Earth Day news outlets this weekend.
Sourcing recycled content, creating a demand-pull effect, was what we were working on when I started at Massachusetts DEP in 1992. It can be very big news.
Question: How did I know about this almost 2 years before Apple's announcement?
Apple doesn't make its own stuff. It's generally put together by a Shenzhen contract manufacturer like Foxconn or Wistron, which the blog has focused on many times.
Guess how we knew about Hong Kong EcoPark when we allowed a trial load of printers to go to Hong Kong - when our E-Steward downstream wouldn't pick up after several loads to their shredder? When the BAN GPS Tracker was in our facility, and suddenly our shipments were mysteriously cancelled?
When I did background check on why Hong Kong would be paying for printer scrap again, before approving to the Chicago downstream replacing the E-Steward, I found that the $550M EcoPark tenants were sourcing scrap for plastic to be sold to a contract manufacturer in Shenzhen. One who made devices with a major brand name label.
I had thought it was probably Acer (owned in common by founder of Wistron).
But there you go.
This was part of the story when I was told, after the BAN report, that our printer scrap didn't go to the EcoPark because it was overstocked and the expansion wasn't ready yet. It's not a great excuse.
But the people I was talking to, making the excuse about letting "non-chemical waste" go to scrap metal yards because they couldn't let the PCs and displays go, they were the people who told me a major manufacturer was going to 100% recycled content in the near future.
Across the bay, in Shenzhen.
It's reported from Apple's just-released 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report. It's bound to hit all the Earth Day news outlets this weekend.Sourcing recycled content, creating a demand-pull effect, was what we were working on when I started at Massachusetts DEP in 1992. It can be very big news.
Question: How did I know about this almost 2 years before Apple's announcement?
Apple doesn't make its own stuff. It's generally put together by a Shenzhen contract manufacturer like Foxconn or Wistron, which the blog has focused on many times.
Guess how we knew about Hong Kong EcoPark when we allowed a trial load of printers to go to Hong Kong - when our E-Steward downstream wouldn't pick up after several loads to their shredder? When the BAN GPS Tracker was in our facility, and suddenly our shipments were mysteriously cancelled?
When I did background check on why Hong Kong would be paying for printer scrap again, before approving to the Chicago downstream replacing the E-Steward, I found that the $550M EcoPark tenants were sourcing scrap for plastic to be sold to a contract manufacturer in Shenzhen. One who made devices with a major brand name label.
I had thought it was probably Acer (owned in common by founder of Wistron).
But there you go.
This was part of the story when I was told, after the BAN report, that our printer scrap didn't go to the EcoPark because it was overstocked and the expansion wasn't ready yet. It's not a great excuse.
But the people I was talking to, making the excuse about letting "non-chemical waste" go to scrap metal yards because they couldn't let the PCs and displays go, they were the people who told me a major manufacturer was going to 100% recycled content in the near future.
Across the bay, in Shenzhen.
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