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UPDATE April 16, 2026

Conserving and Replenishing Fresh Water Around the World

Last year, Apple and its suppliers saved 17 billion gallons of fresh water — enough to fill more than 25,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The company is also driving water conservation efforts across its corporate operations, and by 2030, is working to replenish all of the fresh water withdrawn to support Apple’s facilities worldwide through innovative, long-term partnerships designed to save, restore, and secure water at the watershed level. In 2025, Apple’s contracted projects replenished more than half the water it withdrew to support its global offices, data centers, and retail stores. Additionally, all eight Apple-owned data centers have now been certified to the Alliance for Water Stewardship standard.

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  1. Apple defines recycled content in alignment with ISO 14021. Total recycled material shipped in products is driven by product material composition and volume of units sold.
  2. Excludes inventory for replacement and repair, as well as excess inventory purchased prior to year-end currently being consumed and representing less than 0.1 percent of total material usage.
  3. Apple achieved its goal of removing plastic in its packaging and transitioning to 100 percent fiber-based packaging. Every package manufactured today is made with 100 percent fiber-based materials. Apple’s goal excluded the inks, coatings, or adhesives used in its packaging. Existing inventory shipped with plastic-containing packaging will be sold until consumed to avoid waste. This category represented less than 0.4 percent of Apple’s total packaging footprint in fiscal year 2025.
  4. Offer available to customers who recycle an eligible Apple device and purchase a new eligible AirPods or accessory in the same transaction between April 16 and May 16, 2026. Only at Apple Store locations. See apple.com/promo for additional terms.
  5. Savings from 2021 to 2025 were calculated by multiplying each year’s sales volume by the previous year’s estimated plastic per unit for each product line, and then subtracting that year’s estimated plastic use. The water bottle equivalent assumes each bottle weighs 30 grams.
  6. Source based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator: epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator.
  7. Product recycled or renewable content is the mass of certified recycled material relative to the overall mass of the device, not including packaging or in-box accessories.
  8. All established final-assembly supplier sites — or those that have been Apple suppliers for more than one year — for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro have been third-party verified by UL Solutions against the UL 2799 Zero Waste to Landfill Environmental Claim Validation Procedure (ECVP). UL Solutions requires at least 90 percent diversion through methods other than waste-to-energy to achieve Zero Waste to Landfill designations.
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