We do this by focusing on our products: what happens when we design them, what happens when we make them, and what happens when you take them home and use them (Apple Inc.)”. The Apple website claims that, “Apple reports environmental impact comprehensively. When Apple designs a product their designers consider the energy required to: extract, process, package, transport, sell, install (build), maintain, and to recycle or dispose of a product. Apple has reduced its carbon footprint and carbon emission by eliminating toxic materials and chemicals by using alternative resources and designing for the future.Īpple has a team of designers that only focuses on the life cycle of any Apple product. The raw materials that go into a MACBOOK PRO 13” 2012 have been reduced compared to any previous MacBook editions. The raw materials that go into a product have a direct impact environmentally resulting in direct affects on the health and safety of the public. Based off of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) my research focused on the raw materials that go into the manufacturing of a MacBook Pro 13” 2012. As one of the leaders it is important for Apple to be conscious of their inputs and outputs of any product systems they create. Apple is one of the biggest companies to dominate in the world technology sector.
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