SUSTAINABILITY approach to make, take and dispose. With tech fans often vying for Apple’ s latest release months before details of it even emerge, phones are often something that are now used for around two years before being upgraded – with Apple assuming a three-year lifecycle for the first owner for environmental modeling purposes. But as the climate crisis intensifies, Apple is leveraging high-precision robotics to tackle the shortage of critical minerals head-on.
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