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Apple will buy renewable power for its Mac mini users
Apple went to unusual lengths to ensure it accounted for and neutralized all the pollution that the new Mac Mini might produce.
Shrinking the Mac Mini also likely helped keep the footprint down, though it’s impossible to tell since Apple doesn’t break out specific figures for things like materials and manufacturing in its environmental declarations. Making and shipping the base model Mac Mini, which has 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, generates 32 kg of carbon pollution, even after Apple accounts for its low-carbon power investments. In the end, Apple says it zeros out those figures for any Mac Mini by purchasing carbon credits from nature-based projects like sustainably managed forests and restored ecosystems.
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