CUPERTINO, Calif. -- It took Apple less than a decade to sell a billion iPhones, but where do those devices land at the end of their life? Some of them wind up with Daisy, the second-generation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple's Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac ...

Inside a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, Apple's Daisy robot has been designed to break apart iPhones so that 14 minerals, including lithium, can be extracted and recycled.

Apple Inc is trying to change the way electronics are recycled with a robot that disassembles its iPhone so that minerals can be recovered and reused, while acknowledging rising global demand for ...

Few workers at the recycling plant had access to the secure room that some called the “Apple cage.” Behind its locked door, past a metal detector and under surveillance cameras, a small team of ...

The company says it plans to use 100 percent-recycled cobalt, rare earth elements, tin soldering and gold plating. Since 2019, Apple estimates that more than 11,000 kilograms of cobalt have been ...

Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, Apple has added a banner to its website that reminds customers they can recycle their Apple devices "for free" with the company's recycling partners. The process can be ...

Apple has continually updated that figure in the 7.5 years since Daisy arrived. The robot now handles 29 different models, up from 18 a year and a half ago. The stark difference in cycle times between ...