Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8:35AM Apple discloses carbon footprint details
Apple, manufacturers of the popular computers, iPods and iPhones has released detailed information on the carbon footprint of its products and operations.
Apple's comprehensive website breaks down the company's 10.2 million tonne footprint, which includes facilities emissions, manufacturing, transportation, recycling and product use.
With this release Apple has improved on the emissions reporting recently completed by competitors Dell, which received criticism from the Wall Street Journal last year for not including manufacturing, transportation or product usage in its emissions and offset reporting.
In addition to a breakdown of the companys footprint by operational sector, Apple has also released detailed reports of the emissions from each of its recent product lines. Every Mac, Macbook, iPod and iPhone produced by Apple has a brief but detailed environmental report, including greenhouse gas emissions over its expected life-cycle.
As the company that first popularized USB, wireless networking, portable MP3 players and touch-screen mobile phones, Apple has set the bar very high for the environmental reporting in the electronics manufacturing industry.
Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint of Apple Products
- 20-inch iMac: 870 kg CO2e
- 24-inch iMac: 1380 kg CO2e
- Mac Mini: 240 kg CO2e
- Mac Pro: 2110 kg CO2e
- 13-inch MacBook Pro: 420 kg CO2e
- 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.53 GHz): 490 kg CO2e
- 15-inch MacBook Pro (2.66-2.8 GHz): 530 kg CO2e
- 17-inch MacBook Pro: 640 kg CO2e
- MacBook Air: 320 kg CO2e
- MacBook (White): 410 kg CO2e
- iPhone 3G, 3GS: 55 kg CO2e
- iPod touch: 33 kg CO2e
- iPod classic: 23 kg CO2e
- iPod nano: 15 kg CO2e
- iPod shuffle: 10 kg CO2e
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