CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF APPLE INC.

Environmental corporate responsibility

Corporate Facilities: 100% renewable energy for 100% of our facilities.
100 percent of the electricity use at all of the facilities comes from renewable sources. This outcome is the
result of the relentless innovation—investing in renewable energy projects and supporting industry-
leading advances along the way. These efforts have lowered emissions from our facilities to 1 percent of
our comprehensive carbon footprint.

Packaging: Using more recycled and responsibly sourced materials in packaging

Forests provide wood fiber for the paper in product packaging. They also clean air, purify water, and
provide wildlife habitat. Apple look for ways to use more recycled and responsibly sourced paper, to
create technologies that use paper more efficiently, and to find alternatives to plastic. In fiscal year 2017,
100 percent of the paper in the packaging was from responsibly managed forests, controlled wood, or
recycled sources. They’re replacing some plastic components with materials like bamboo fiber and
bagasse, a by-product of sugarcane. And they’ve reached their goal to protect and create enough
sustainably managed forests around the world to cover our current paper use and produce fiber
for generations. In fiscal year 2017, U.S. product packaging used on average 29 percent less plastic than
in 2016, made possible by replacing plastic with responsibly sourced and recycled paper.

Waste: Finding new ways to keep old materials out of landfills

Apple is committed to make sure that all the waste created by the facilities and in the supply chain is
reused, recycled, composted, or when necessary, converted into energy. In 2015, the facility in Cork,
Ireland, was the first outside North America to receive UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill certification. In
addition, 22 supplier facilities—including all iPhone final assembly sites—have received UL’s Zero
Waste to Landfill certification, diverting more than 625,000 metric tons of waste from landfills since
January 2015. When first launching Zero Waste Program for suppliers in 2015, the focused is on final
assembly sites in China, where most in-process packaging waste was being generated in our supply chain.
Since those facilities have all achieved Zero Waste to Landfill certification, Apple expanded to include
more upstream suppliers. To date, Apple is engaged 71 supplier sites. To help their suppliers divert all
waste from landfills, Apple provides necessary tools and guidance, including the services of experts in
sustainable waste management.

Water: We hold ourselves accountable for every drop of water we use

Supplier water use
In 2013, Apple established the Clean Water Program to help suppliers conserve water and prevent water
pollution. They put a special emphasis on working with suppliers with high water usage and in water
stressed regions, as well as makers of components that the life cycle water assessments have identified as
particularly water-intensive. Through employee training, baseline assessments, performance evaluations,
and technical support, Apple helped the suppliers conserve more than 5.1 billion gallons of water in 2017
alone, increasing average water reuse to 37 percent across 106 facilities.
Corporate water use
In fiscal year 2017, Apple used about 1 billion gallons of water directly, a 59 percent increase over the
previous year. This increase was driven by extraordinary growth in the data center services, research and
development activities, and temporary water uses like new construction, and establishment of mature
trees at Apple Park. These temporary water uses represented 80 million gallons—nearly 10 percent of the
water footprint. In addition, they have expanded the water footprint to include colocation facilities and
distribution centers for the first time, which together amount to 159 million gallons of water, or
16 percent of the total footprint.

Green Buildings: Designing our buildings with the planet in mind.

Apple Park—new headquarters in Cupertino—is the latest example of this commitment. The building is
on track to be the largest LEED Platinum–certified office building in North America. It’s powered by
100 percent renewable energy, 75 percent of which is generated onsite by a 17-megawatt rooftop solar
installation and 4 megawatts of base load biogas fuel cells. Any additional energy required is drawn from
the nearby California Flats Solar Project.

Global Volunteer Program

The ‘Global Volunteer Program’ is designed to encourage Apple employees in select locations to
volunteer in their local communities. Under the Apple Global Volunteer Program, Apple is offering
employees a way to receive training and tools to help them create and publicize local volunteer events to
better their communities. The program, currently available in the United States, Sydney, and Cork, also
aims to help employees find activities to volunteer for. It was launched in 2011 to encourage employees
to volunteer in local communities. Since its launch more than USD 78 billion was donated to charities and
non-profits around the world.

Employee Health and Safety at Apple

The company has launched Apple Supplier EHS Academy, an 18-month program that aims to improve
employee health and safety in the industry throughout the globe. 240 suppliers and 270,000 workers have
participated in this program. Research has been conducted in Apple’s ergonomics department on about 75
jobs within supply chain to identify ergonomic risks. The research has resulted in improved standards for
managing workstation design changes.

Energy Consumption by Apple

Apple is often praised for its environmental records that include decrease of total power consumption of
Apple products by 57percent, introduction of Mac mini as the world’s most energy-efficient desktop
computer and exceeding ENERGY STAR guidelines. Apple emerges as the only company that has been
awarded with a Clean Energy Index of 100 percent, according to Greenpeace’s Clicking Clean Report.
Apple Inc. is sourcing or generating enough renewable energy to cover 96% of the electricity used at its
facilities worldwide. The company is now 100 per cent renewable energy in 24 countries. Each Apple
data center around the world runs on 100 per cent renewable energy. The multinational technology
company has committed to bring 4 gig watts of renewable power online by 2020

Water Consumption by Apple

The company launched Clean Water Program in 2013 and since more than 8 billion gallons of water have
been saved by suppliers. Cooling systems in company’s date centers can reuse water up to 35 times. In
2015 the company converted about 120,000 square feet of previously grass lawns to drought-tolerant
landscape, translating to estimated water savings of up to 6 million gallons per year. Despite the
initiatives above, water usage by Apple data centers, retail and corporate facilities have been consistently
increasing during the last three year.

Waste Reduction and Recycling by Apple

Apple offers recycling programs in 99 percent of the countries it operates and the company has diverted
more than 508 million pounds of electronic waste from landfills since 2008. In 2016 the company
introduced Liam, a line of robots that can disassemble an iPhone every 11 seconds and sort its high-
quality components so they can be recycled. In 2015, more than 99% of Apple product packaging was
done from recycled paper or papers sourced from sustainably managed forests. Apple is working with
more than 160 recycling companies around the world and in 2015 it collected nearly 90 million pounds of
e-waste through its recycling programs.

Carbon Emissions by Apple

In 2016 Apple’s comprehensive carbon footprint was 29.5 million metric tons, compared with 38.4
million the year before. As it is illustrated in figure below, the company’s CO2 emissions per product has
been consistently decreasing during the last four years to reach 97 kg in 2016.

 Changes in Apple CO2 emissions per product (kg)

The company offers employees more than 550 electric vehicle charging ports for free, an increase of 67
percent compared to the previous year to encourage the usage of electric vehicles In 2016, the
multinational technology company conducted 34 energy audits at supplier facilities, identifying more than
USD55 million in annual energy savings opportunities. Energy efficiency improvements introduced by
Apple suppliers in 2016 eliminated the output of more than 150,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents.

Apple and Sustainable Sourcing

More than 99% of paper used in packaging is prepared from recycled wood fiber. The company partnered
with The Conservation Fund to protect 36,000 acres of sustainable forest in North Carolina and Maine
and more than 13,000 metric tons of wood was harvested responsibly. Apple aims to contribute to
transition up to 1 million acres of forest, across five southern provinces, into responsible management by
2020.

Apple other CSR Initiatives and Charitable Donations

The company has planted more than 9000 drought-tolerant trees in Apple Park in Cupertino. In 2017
Apple donated USD 1 million to Southern California Wildfire Recovery Efforts. The multinational
technology company rose more than USD 3 million for Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts in August 2017.