Earth Day has real meaning for Apple. It is the point at which it surpassed a 60% reduction in its global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (compared with 2025 levels) – this is part of its Apple 2030 goal to become carbon neutral across its entire footprint.

Other milestones have also been reached, including the use of 99% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets and 99% recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries. These achievements were set out in Apple’s annual Environmental Progress Report.

Apple’s 2030 strategy prioritises cutting GHG emissions by 75% compared with its 2015 baseline year, before applying carbon credits to balance the remaining emissions. Last year, Apple’s comprehensive efforts to reduce its carbon footprint – including the continued transition of its supply chain to renewable electricity and designing products with more recycled materials – avoided an estimated 41m metric tons of GHGs.

Further achievement include:

– A total of 17.8 gigawatts of renewable electricity online in Apple’s global supply chain, which helped avoid 21.8m metric tons of GHG emissions in 2024.
– 26 of Apple’s direct semiconductor suppliers committing to abate at least 90% of fluorinated GHGs from their facilities with Apple-related production by 2030.
– The continued use of more recycled and renewable materials across its products, helping drive down the carbon footprint.
– In 2024, suppliers participating in Apple’s Zero Waste programme which redirected approximately 600,000 metric tons of waste from landfills, bringing the total to 3.6m metric tons since the programme’s inception in 2015.
– Earlier this year, the company introducing the new MacBook Air with over 55% recycled content overall, the most in any Apple product.
– Apple and its suppliers saving over 90bn gallons of fresh water since launching the Supplier Clean Water Program in 2013.