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0 pointsastrange4mo ago0 comments

> laundering cobalt from illegal "artisanal" mines in the DRC

They don't, all cobalt in Apple products is recycled.

> and whitewashing what they do by using corporate layering and shady deals to put themselves at sufficient degrees of separation from problematic labor and sources to do good PR, but not actually decoupling at all.

They don't, Apple audits their entire supply chain so it wouldn't hide anything if something moved to another subcontractor.

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sharpshadow4mo ago

One can claim 100% recycled cobalt under the mass balance system even if recycled and non-recycled cobalt was mixed as long as the total amount used in production is less or equal to recycled cobalt purchased in the books. At least here[0] they claim their recycled cobalt references are under the mass balance system.

0. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-will-use-100-pe...

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