14 DAY TRIAL // Chinese representatives from five domestic environmental groups sat down with Apple this week to discuss pollution matters, but Apple did not admit to having any polluters in its supply chain, a new report now reveals.
A representative from one of the groups was quoted in a Caixin report as saying that Apple was taking the necessary steps to reduce pollution in the country.
This led to widespread speculation that Apple had indirectly admitted to having polluted China with 15 of its suppliers’ plants. However, Rob Schmitz of American Public Media’s Marketplace questioned the accuracy of the Caixin report.
After doing a little research, he reported that “Yesterday’s Caixin article on Apple … is, according to at least one person who attended the mtg, full of errors. Envirofriends’ 李力 [Li Li] told me Apple did -not- admit to violating any pollution laws. The only thing it admitted was having 15 suppliers in China,” he wrote on Twitter.
The original Caixin story has since been pulled.