Apple Responds The Environmental Protection Issue

After a lapse of nearly half a year, Apple's pollution problems of supply chain is exposed again. Recently, the Public Environmental Research Center and five environmental groups, after seven months of investigation, found that Apple's upstream supplier in China's is still creating a lot of pollution emission and the situation is getting worse.

A day later, they claim that they had got feedback messages from Apple's Supplier Responsibility department. The other party will understand the environmental conditions of suppliers provided by environmental organizations. They are also willing to establish a dialogue mechanism to communicate with environmental organizations.

In the first half of this year, Apple has recognized in its 2011 survey of suppliers of responsibility that 37 suppliers have severe irregularities in management. In the view of the public Environmental Research Center, the latest e-mail exchange is a positive signal.

August 31, Friends of Nature and the Public Environmental Research Center announced they made a seven-month investigation on China's domestic pollution problems of Apple supplier manufacture. The survey shows that Apple's upstream supplier in China's is still creating a lot of pollution emission and the situation is getting worse. It even has a serious threat to the environment and the public health of Wuhan, Taiyuan and other places.

According to the Environmental Research Center, this time Apple responded quickly. Apple is willing to establish dialogue with environmental organizations, and suggested that if they can communicate by the way of private conference call. Apple will focus on continuously improving supply vendor. When they assess you the list of suppliers, they found some inconsistent places, such as some suppliers are not in our supply chain. If you can find more details about these suppliers, they will be very interested.

In the earlier of this year, the environmental organizations have contacted Apple several times for Apple's pollution problems and wish to establish a dialogue mechanism to discuss the environmental issues of Apple's supply chain. But they did not get a response. Therefore, the public environmental research center said that although the message did not mention the specific time of communication, but in their view, this already is a positive signal.

The supplier must do everything to eliminate chemical hazards. When the chemical hazards can not be eliminated, the supplier must provide appropriate engineering controls and provide employees with appropriate personal protective equipment, etc. Apple's willing to work with environmental organizations to communicate at least means that Apple will further implement the policy.