Apple has agreed to pay a fine of $450,000 for improperly operating a hazardous waste facility in California. T
he company ran a plant in Cupertino that processed some 1.1 million pounds of hazardous waste. The plant was closed in 2013 and moved to Sunnyvale. California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control alleged that Apple ran the facility without the state’s knowledge.
Apple blamed the transgression on “an oversight in paperwork.”
The state accused Apple of mishandling some toxic dust, but no one was harmed and neither was the environment. Apple made clear that its own safety standards are more strict than the law demands
