Apple has reported strong progress in renewable energy adoption across its supply chain, although manufacturing emissions remained unchanged in 2025 compared with the previous year.
According to Apple’s 2026 Environmental Progress Report, the company and its direct suppliers saved billions of gallons of freshwater, added 20 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity and diverted hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of waste from landfill during 2025.
Apple aims to become carbon neutral across its supply chain by 2030.
Between 2021 and 2025, Apple reduced gross manufacturing emissions by more than half to 8.15 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The company’s broader target is to cut emissions 75% from 2015 levels and offset the remainder by 2030. By the end of 2025, total greenhouse gas emissions were 60% below 2015 levels.
However, emissions were unchanged from 2024, suggesting the remaining reductions may be more difficult to achieve.
Apple said electricity used by manufacturing suppliers remains its largest source of emissions. Through its Supplier Code of Conduct, the company requires suppliers to use 100% renewable electricity for Apple production before 2030.
In 2025 alone, suppliers brought online more than 20 gigawatts of renewable energy, avoiding more than 26 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
The company said suppliers are increasingly using new procurement models in markets such as China, Japan and South Korea.
Apple also reported that over 400 supplier facilities across 15 countries diverted more than 600,000 metric tonnes of waste from landfill in 2025, bringing the Zero Waste Program total to 4 million metric tonnes since 2015.
Across the supply chain, Apple and suppliers saved 17 billion gallons of freshwater.
Thirty percent of product materials came from recycled or renewable sources in 2025.
Materials reaching 100% recycled sourcing targets included gold, tantalum, rare earth elements for magnets, cobalt for Apple-designed batteries and tin solder for company-designed circuit boards.
Apple also approved more than 70 safer industrial cleaning products in 2025, bringing its approved list to 300.
