Pollution from companies like Apple is contributing to the terrible air quality that's killing 4,400 people every single day in China -- but Apple won’t tell us how much toxic carbon it’s spewing into the atmosphere.
This is how corporations disguise the pollution they pump into our air: they outsource manufacturing to contractors in China, where they can avoid taking responsibility for the sneaky carbon emissions in their products.
The factories that produce Apple parts can generate four times the emissions it takes to assemble the phone. All the coal and gas burned to manufacture, ship and assemble iPhone parts don’t get included in Apple's environmental rating—and the result is deadly.
But there's a way to hold Apple to account - force the tech giant to come clean over how much pollution it spews out through its supply chain.
Apple: you can’t hide your deadly pollution any longer. Come clean about your sneaky emission now!
We’ve held Apple accountable for the deplorable working conditions at some of its supply-side factories like FoxConn and forced it to improve its practices. Why can’t we do the same thing for its carbon emissions? The future of our planet literally depends on it.
If we want to get serious about stopping climate change, we have to hold corporations like Apple accountable for all the pollution they’re responsible for—not just the pollution they’re willing to tell us about.
That’s exactly what SumOfUs members forced some of the world's biggest companies to do when we changed the conversation about palm oil. Hundreds of thousands of us taught the world that some of our most-loved food products from Doritos to Cornflakes were responsible for massive deforestation and the elimination of precious orangutan habitat. We turned palm oil production upside down -- and that’s exactly what we’re going to do with sneaky supply-chain carbon pollution.
Tell Apple to come clean about its deadly supply-chain emissions now.
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New York Times. 13 August 2015.
HuffPo. 14 March 2014.