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<p>Apple’s ninth annual
<a href="http://images.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Responsibility_Report_2016.pdf" target="_blank">Environmental Responsibility Report[/url] summarises the company’s work on its three environmental priorities of renewable energy, safer materials & processes and conserving resources. As part of the third of those, the company revealed that its recycling program last year recovered 89 million pounds of materials –
<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-recovered-40m-in-gold-from-recycled-products-2016-4?r=US&IR=T" target="_blank">Business Insider[/url] noting that this included a cool $40M worth of gold.</p>
<p>Gold is commonly used in circuit boards because it has low electrical resistance and, unlike copper, doesn’t corrode. In most applications, a thin layer of gold covers a thicker layer of copper – which was a second valuable material recovered by Apple …</p>
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