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Apple assembly partner Foxconn has set itself new targets to reduce emissions, targeting a 21% reduction by the company by 2025.
Foxconn used Friday’s Earth Day to announce several environmental initiatives it wants to implement to green the organization. The announcement set out a number of milestones it plans to achieve to reach its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
The first of the group has Foxconn seeking to cut its emissions by 21% by 2025 from levels seen in 2020, Nikkei Asia reports. A second target has been set to achieve a 63% reduction by 2035, which will put it over half its net emissions target for 2050.
In terms of energy consumption, it plans to get at least half of its needs from green sources by 2030. Foxconn also claims that it has already started using solar energy and has improved the efficiency of its equipment in recent years.
In the same announcement, Foxconn said it aims to recycle at least 60% of the plastic used at its sites around the world. It also plans to set up monitoring systems for wastewater discharge and air quality.
Foxconn is one of several companies that have partnered with Apple and stepped up their efforts to become more environmentally friendly, encouraged by the iPhone maker’s initiatives. After making its global operations carbon neutral, Apple said in 2020 that it wanted to achieve total carbon neutrality for all of its business aspects by 2030.
On April 14, Apple said its supply chain had avoided 13.9 million tons of carbon emissions by 2021 and doubled its suppliers’ use of clean power. On April 19, Apple revealed that nearly 20% of its products by 2021 will be made from recycled materials, with 59% aluminum and 45% rare earth elements coming from recycling.
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