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Recycle. Reuse. Repeat.

Innovation in conservation.

Our disassembly robots — Daisy, Dave, and Taz — recover crucial materials like gold, cobalt, tungsten, and rare earth elements from recycled iPhone devices, so they can be used to make new ones.

The futuristic hand and arm of one of Apple's pioneering disassembly robots.
More recycled content? Naturally.

We’re significantly expanding the use of key recycled metals in iPhone batteries, magnets, and circuit boards. Case in point: Our latest models contain 95 percent recycled lithium in the battery cathode — a first for Apple.7

Graphic showing the steps Apple takes to recycle and reuse materials, including design and source, make, package and ship, use, and recover.
Apple Trade In.

When you’re ready to buy a new iPhone, you can trade in your current iPhone or Android device and apply any credit toward your purchase. If your device isn’t eligible for credit, we’ll recycle it for free.

Four iPhone devices, including two iPhone 16 Pro models in Desert Titanium, one showing three camera lenses behind another iPhone Pro showing the Dynamic Island. Next to two iPhone 16 models in Ultramarine, one showing 2 camera lenses and another iPhone 16 showing the Dynamic Island.
Planet-worthy packaging.

For the first time, iPhone packaging is 100 percent fiber based.8 And there’s no plastic wrap in or around the box.

Planet-friendly fiber-based iPhone 16 packaging.
On track to carbon neutral.

Our stores, offices, and data centers are already carbon neutral. By 2030, Apple will be carbon neutral across our entire carbon footprint.

Exterior of a modern Apple store by night.