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Apple is making progress cleaning up its dirty supply chain

Apple’s new sustainability report shows progress.

A dirty supply chain is probably the hardest part of a company’s carbon footprint to clean up — but it’s also the most impactful because it typically makes up a majority of its planet-heating pollution. Companies like Apple can buy credits in carbon markets from projects that are supposed to remove CO2 from the air by planting trees or restoring ecosystems. Apple has pulled ahead of other big tech companies in terms of its climate goals by setting targets for its suppliers to use renewable energy, according to a report published last year.

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