{"id":575,"date":"2017-05-03T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=575"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:09:41","slug":"from-the-web-apple-announces-goal-to-make-products-from-100-recycled-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/03\/from-the-web-apple-announces-goal-to-make-products-from-100-recycled-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Apple announces goal to make products from 100% recycled materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM.png 1404w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-03-at-3.01.18-PM-500x285.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>The electronics industry is notoriously harsh on the planet. Around 60 million metric tons of e-waste end up in landfills each year, and children are sometimes put to work to mine necessary rare earth elements. Technology giant Apple aims to fix these issues in their company. They recently announced plans to use <strong>100 percent recycled materials<\/strong> in <em><strong>all of their devices.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s aims are ambitious. In addition to using only recycled materials, the company also wants 100 percent of their supply chain to run entirely on renewable energy. They want their packaging to be made of 100 percent responsibly sourced and recycled paper. And they want to stop mining the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/apple-announces-goal-to-make-products-from-100-recycled-materials\/\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via inhabitat)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electronics industry is notoriously harsh on the planet. Around 60 million metric tons of e-waste end up in landfills each year, and children are sometimes put to work to mine necessary rare earth elements. Technology giant Apple aims to fix these issues in their company. They recently announced plans to use 100 percent recycled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/03\/from-the-web-apple-announces-goal-to-make-products-from-100-recycled-materials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Apple announces goal to make products from 100% recycled materials&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-9h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}