The company said it is now protecting or has created enough sustainable forestland to cover all paper packaging products.

Apple said the Forest Stewardship Council, a body responsible for creating eco-friendly forestry standards, certified approximately 320,000 acres of working forest the company is supporting in China.

According to appleinsider.com, the tech giant is further protecting virgin fibre by developing smaller package designs and increasing the ratio of recycled paper used in its products.

Apple’s forestry initiative began in 2015 with the purchase of 36,000 acres of vulnerable forestland in Maine and North Carolina through The Conservation Fund’s Working Forest Fund. Yields from the two US states amounted to 13,000 metric tons of wood, enough to cover around 30% of Apple’s product packaging that year.

Source: packagingnews