Report-IT-V-Apple-II.pdf

THE OTHER SIDE OF APPLE II POLLUTION SPREADS THROUGH APPLE’S SUPPLY CHAIN 8-31-2011 Friends of Nature Institute of Public Environmental Affairs Green Beagle Envirofriends Green Stone Environmental Action Network Cover Photo by Chuong Nguyen 1 Executive Summary th In the report titled ‘The Other Side of Apple,’ published January 20 , 2011, a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple’s supply chain in China. Yet to this day, Apple has systematically failed to respo nd to all queries regarding their supply chain environmental violations. Faced with an ever evasive Apple, a group of Chinese NGOs decided to dig deeper and carry out further investigations into the environmental problems that exist within Apple’s supply chain. Through five months of research and field investigations we have found that the pollution discharge from this $300 billon dollar company has been expanding and spreading throughout its supply chain, and has been seriously encroaching on local communities and their surrounding environments. Figure 1: Mapping of some suspected Apple suppliers 2 Through our investigations, we discovered that the pollution from some of Apple’s