Apple races to surpass rivals in quest to eliminate carbon pollution

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are all locked in a race in a race to see who can do carbon pollution first.

Apple stated that there are more than half there on Wednesday. Since 2015 The company says He reduced greenhouse gas waste from 60%. It covers everything from production and marketing to corporate transactions and customer use.

Many companies successfully eliminated the carbon trace of the main operations. Cheap sun Wind and increasingly affordable grid scale batteries are relatively simple and even profitable, even in a spending point of view.

However, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft were promised to eliminate only their own carbon emissions, but also suppliers and customers. In this word Coverage 3 The emissions are difficult to solve because they fell out of direct control of a company.

In this regard, Apple has taken some advanced steps. When the company is Apple has announced 9 series of hoursHe also said that it will receive a renewable power on behalf of customers. A year later, this Did the same thing New M4 for Mac Mini buyers.

Mac Mini announcement accidentally stressed the external role of electronic goods in carbon marks.

The 16GB of RAM and 256GB memory, Mac Mini, 22 kg of carbon pollution, 64GB RAM and 8TB storage, 121 kg of footprint. The number of plugs is responsible for changing this figure in approximately quarters.

Apple has worked with semiconductor suppliers to solve the release, 26 of them, including 26 of them, relevant to 90% of fluorine greenhouse gases in their operations. Fluorine greenhouse gases are widely used in semiconductor production to clean the chips and equipment in the manufacture of semikkuicist today. However, fluorine compounds are some of the strongest greenhouse gases. For example, hexafluoroetane warms 9,200 times more like carbon dioxide.

Apple aims to eliminate at least 75% of greenhouse gas waste until 2030, which is more than half and five years left. The company said that this will replace the remaining 25% with carbon removal programs.

Although other companies are different from other companies, although they are different from their details. For example, Microsoft invests in technological solutions Direct air capture together with the solutions based on nature dramatization. There are apple decision Nature-based solutions offer the best chance to reduce waste in the near future.