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Apple Halts Production at 15 Facilities for Environmental Violations
February 18, 2015
Apple Halts Production at 15 Facilities for Environmental Violations
Apple suspended production at 15 facilities that violated its environmental rules in 2014, according to the company’s Supplier Responsibility 2015 Progress Report.
Last year the tech giant conducted compliance audits at 633 facilities — a 40 percent increase from 2013.
Three of the sites were suspended for repeating a violation of no or inadequate environmental impact assessment approval. Once the EIR reports were complete and approved by the local environmental protection agencies, the facilities resumed production.
Another five were suspended for releasing waste air without treatment. Apple says the violating sites installed equipment to filter discharged air and put monitoring protocols in place.
And seven were suspended for directly discharging wastewater into storm pipe or sewage systems without treatment. Apple says the seven were required to implement wastewater collection and treatment systems before production resumed.
Read more at Environmental Leader.
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