Apple accelerates progress with highest-ever recycled material in its products

UPDATE April 16, 2026 Apple accelerates environmental progress with highest‑ever recycled material in its products New milestones include removing plastic from packaging, using 100 percent recycled cobalt in Apple-designed batteries, and replenishing more than half of Apple’s corporate water use .image-c62d63511eb12e2ce167908dcf337281 { width: 100%; padding-top: 56.224487%; height: auto; } @media only screen and (max-width: 1068px) { .image-c62d63511eb12e2ce167908dcf337281 { width: 100%; padding-top: 56.213875%; height: auto; } } @media only screen and (max-width: 734px) { .image-c62d63511eb12e2ce167908dcf337281 { width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%; height: auto; } } With this year’s launch of MacBook Neo, featuring 60 percent recycled content overall, and other key environmental milestones announced today, Apple is making steady gains toward its ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by 2030. Apple today announced that a record 30 percent of material across all of its products shipped in 2025 came from recycled content.1 The achievement, along with other key progress milestones Apple shared today, is the result of innovation by teams across Apple and deep collaboration with its global supply chain. As part of this work, Apple now uses 100 percent recycled cobalt in all the batteries it designs and 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets.2 The company also accomplished its goal to remove plastic from packaging, with Apple products now shipping in fiber-based packaging that can be easily recycled at home.3 “At Apple, we believe deeply in leaving the world better than we found it, and that commitment runs across everything we do,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “These milestones in our work to protect the planet show that ambitious goals can also be powerful engines of innovation. And as always, we’ll keep pushing to build on this progress even more.” In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress...