{"id":77948,"date":"2018-04-20T20:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T03:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/apples-recycling-robot-disassembles-200-iphones-an-hour"},"modified":"2018-04-20T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T03:02:55","slug":"apples-recycling-robot-disassembles-200-iphones-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/apples-recycling-robot-disassembles-200-iphones-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s recycling robot disassembles 200 iPhones an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apples-recycling-robot-disassembles-200-iphones-an-hour.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, Apple made the bold proclamation that it was zeroing in on a future where iPhones and MacBooks were created wholly of recycled materials. It was, and still is, an ambitious thought. In a technologically-charged world, many forget that nearly 100 percent of e-waste is recyclable. Apple didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Named \u201cDaisy,\u201d Apple\u2019s new robot builds on its previous iteration, Liam, which Apple used to disassemble unneeded iPhones in an attempt to scrap or reuse the materials. Like her predecessor, Daisy can successfully salvage a bulk of the material needed to create brand new iPhones. All told, the robot is capable of extracting parts from nine types of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read more about iPhone.\">iPhone<\/a>, and for every 100,000 devices it manages to recover 1,900 kg (4,188 pounds) of aluminum, 770 kg of cobalt, 710 kg of copper, and 11 kg of rare earth elements \u2014 which also happen to be some of the hardest and environmentally un-friendly materials required to build the devices.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest environmental progress report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/environment\/pdf\/Apple_Environmental_Responsibility_Report_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2018\/04\/21\/apples-recycling-robot-disassembles-200-iphones-hour\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2018\/04\/21\/apples-recycling-rob...ones-hour\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, Apple made the bold proclamation that it was zeroing in on a future where iPhones and MacBooks were created wholly of recycled materials. It was, and still is, an ambitious thought. In a technologically-charged world, many forget that nearly 100 percent of e-waste is recyclable. Apple didn\u2019t. Named \u201cDaisy,\u201d Apple\u2019s new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}