驚了!蘋果去年回收舊電腦和手機獲價值4000萬美元黃金!

A big push for Apple this year is recycling, as it uses partners and fancy new robots to make sure that valuable parts from the millions of iPhones sold per year don't end up in landfills.

今年，蘋果公司的一大推進就是回收工作，該公司利用合作夥伴以及新奇的新型機器人，來保證每年數以萬計的已售iPhone中的珍貴零件不會終結在垃圾填埋場中。

The company released its annual environmental report on last Thursday, and it included some information about just how much it can recover from its old computers — over 61 million pounds of steel, aluminum, glass, and other materials. As part of that, Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold — well over a ton.

上週四，蘋果公司發佈了公司年度環境報告。這份報告總結了通過回收舊電腦而獲得的價值的信息，即該公司不僅僅獲得了超過6100萬磅鋼、鋁、玻璃和其它材料，而且還獲得了2204磅（接近一噸）的黃金。

At the current spot price of 1,229.80 dollars per troy ounce of gold, Apple recovered just under 40 million dollars in gold from old phones and computers.

按照當前每盎司黃金1229.80美元的價格計算，蘋果通過回收舊電腦和智能手機獲得了價值近4000萬美元的黃金。

But where did this 39,502,000 dollars of gold come from? According to Fairphone, an activist group focused on electronics supply chains, the average smartphone uses 30 milligrams of gold, mostly in circuit boards and other internal components.

但是蘋果獲得的這價值3950.2萬美元的黃金究竟來自於哪裏？致力於電子產業供應鏈調查的激進組織Fairphone指出，平均每部智能手機要使用30毫克的黃金，這些黃金主要用於電路板和其它內部配件。

And Apple recycles millions of iPhones and other computers that have tiny bits of gold in them. It's also possible that Apple might have recycled a few Apple Watch editions, which have been estimated to have over 50 grams of 18-karat gold in it. But it's hard to imagine people who spent over 10,000 dollars on an Apple Watch would turn it back to Apple for recycling in less than a year.

蘋果回收的iPhone和舊電腦僅使用了少量的黃金。還有一種可能性，是蘋果可能回收了少量的限量版Apple Watch。業內一直預計，每塊限量版Apple Watch都使用了超過50克的18K金黃金。不過很難以相信有人會花超過1萬美元購買一塊Apple Watch，然後在使用不到一年之後又交還給蘋果用於回收。