Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 59 Mapping and engagement We’re committed to creating We have criteria for the performance needs, Building a comprehensive view Smarter chemistry matters at every stage products of the highest quality — environmental impact, and safety of the materials that of the materials in our products in the product life cycle and that commitment extends to we use. Our goal is to identify material chemistries that meet these standards. We examine the effects of material Good data is fundamental to delivering safer products. the health and environmental chemistries across a product’s life — from design and We rely on detailed and comprehensive information to impacts of everything we make. This manufacturing to the customer experience and, ultimately, inform our decision-making on material chemistries. The begins with a clear understanding recycling and recovery. Through early engagement FMD program, launched six years ago, is integral to this of the chemistries of the materials and effective data collection, we’re able to develop a process. It aims to catalog and map each chemical in the comprehensive view of each material, and its chemistry, materials used in our products. Material manufacturers Product design that go into our products. Through in support of our health and environmental goals. are at the center of these efforts. They provide thorough Apple uses our Regulated Substance collaboration, we can build a reporting on material compositions from deep within our Specification to drive our internal teams comprehensive view of the chemicals We’re leading in these efforts. With our partners, supply chain — proprietary data that’s shared through and supply chain partners to select in the materials that we use and we’re engaged in the work required to understand the our innovative and secure data collection system. This materials that meet our requirements. chemical composition of the materials in our products, system enables us to make informed choices about drive improvements in how we make as well as the chemicals and materials used during the materials that are used. For iPhone, iPad, and Mac our products. manufacturing. Close collaboration with our partners products released in 2022, we collected detailed allows us to account for the materials used across our chemical information of 91 percent of each product Several Apple programs support these efforts. Our FMD supply chain. This information informs our decisions by mass, on average. For the Apple Studio Display, we program maps the materials and their chemistries in our when it comes to health and environmental risks. The collected information on more than 93 percent of the Recycling Manufacturing products, while our CSD program tracks the materials way that we effectively collaborate with our partners can product by mass. Recyclers can recover Apple requires suppliers to manage used to manufacture our products. We drive our supply help others in our industry take their own steps toward materials that are safer materials and chemicals and helps chain partners to collect in-depth information on the eliminating potentially harmful chemicals in their products Our suppliers are required to participate in the program. for use in new products. them switch to safer alternatives. chemicals they use, including the purpose for their use, and manufacturing processes. This progress across our Collectively, they share information on thousands of the amount consumed, and how the chemicals are being industry supports our effort to build responsible circular materials used to manufacture our products. To make applied, stored, and handled. We also work closely with economies at scale. this process easier, we’ve implemented an advanced our partners to review the steps being taken to protect collection system for suppliers with access to a library of their employees. more than 47, 000 m aterials, which have been researched and validated by Apple. Our suppliers use this materials library to select the materials they use in our products. If a material that our supplier uses isn’t yet listed in our library, Product use we authenticate the new material with documentation Customers use products from the manufacturer that provides it. made with smarter materials.