Geekaphone completed surveys on the environmental iPhone, now made into a fine survey information chart.
In China, 30 million workers the wages of a day less than 10 assembly iPhone dollars.
iPhone parts from around the world. Three more than 30 companies in the state of tens of thousands of people together to create iPhone.
IPhone 4 a is 45kg of carbon dioxide emissions, of which 57% came from production, 34% from consumer use, 8% emissions from transport, as well as 1% of the recovery.
-2010 IPhone on all consumers to buy emissions into the atmosphere 2.35 billion kg of carbon dioxide.
-2010 IPhone on Apple’s sales of all the electricity to recharge the batteries, equivalent to lighting 357 bulbs in general lighting.
iPhone material content: 40.9g glass, 38.7g of stainless steel, 24.7g battery, 15.4g circuit board, 7.2g screen, 5g the other, there is 3.1g of plastic.
iPhone packaging can save 14% of the fuel.
Emissions in comparison iPhone 4 vs. IPhone 3G: 18% vs. 22%
Less than 10% of the iPhone is recovered. Of these, 42.3 million are discarded as waste, 470 million are recycled. IPhone sales in 2010 alone reached 4.7 million. Apple iPhone free environmentally sensitive recycling.
Finally, some facts:
- Each year, 130 million mobile phone being used as landfill: a week more than 200 million
- Daily average life span of the phone less than 18 months. Consumers to buy the iPhone 4, 77% were for replacement.
- Manufacture of discarded mobile phones every year 65,000 tons of toxic waste, the equivalent of three small tankers loading.
- IPhone 4 packaging material is recyclable and bio-based carbon fiber material.
- IPhone, polyvinyl chloride and bromine containing hazardous chemicals.
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