Apple announced today an expansion of its environmental initiatives in India, with three projects focused on clean energy, plastic pollution, and green entrepreneurship. Here are the details.

As 9to5Mac readers know, India has seen greater focus from Apple in recent years, with the company investing more in manufacturing, retail, and services in the country.

Today, Apple announced a fresh investment in renewable energy infrastructure in India, through a partnership with CleanMax, “one of the country’s leading renewable energy developers,” according to the company.

As a result, the company will invest roughly $10.6 million to help build out renewable energy capacity in the region:

Apple’s initial investment of INR 100 crore will support the development of more than 150 megawatts of new renewable energy capacity — enough to power an average 150,000 Indian households each year — with opportunity to further expand in the coming years.

Apple notes that while this is a new initiative, the company has worked with CleanMax in the past on rooftop solar projects used to power its offices and retail stores in India with 100% renewable energy.

Additionally, Apple announced a new effort with WWF-India to expand recycling and waste-management initiatives to keep plastic waste from entering local ecosystems.

Apple says the program builds “on WWF-India’s collaboration with waste-management pioneer Saahas Zero Waste in Goa,” where facilities “collect, sort, and recover recyclable materials with full traceability.”

In the press release, Apple says that this new initiative will expand this model to new regions, including Coimbatore, alongside local authorities, communities, and waste workers.

Finally, Apple also announced an expansion of its partnership with Acumen, beyond its support for Acumen’s Energy for Livelihoods Accelerator, which focused on social enterprises working on clean energy innovation.

With the new partnership, Apple will enable mentorship, strategic guidance, technical assistance, and network access through “catalytic grants to six green enterprises developing solutions across waste management, circular economy and consumption, and regenerative agriculture and livelihoods.”

Today’s news adds to Apple’s international push for environmental initiatives.

Last year, the company announced new renewable energy projects across Europe, along with a donation program to support environmental education in China, which, like today, also tied into the company’s broader Apple 2030 initiative.

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