The news came from Apple’s 2017 Environment Responsibility Report, which outlines plans to use recycled materials including aluminum, copper, tin, tungsten, and others, to build these devices.

Around 99 percent of tungsten, 71 percent of aluminum, 53 percent of lithium, 40 percent of gold, and 76 percent of cobalt in its products came from recycled sources last year, Apple said.

The use of recycled materials is a welcome and ever-growing trends in tech – Apple uses recycled aluminium for lots of its products, Microsoft makes a mouse from ocean plastic, there are laptops ...