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My Fairphone App: Your digital sustainability tool

Product 20 December 2021

I’d like to kick things off with a quote from tech reviewer Marques Brownlee: “We only have one earth. Hot take – we should be taking better care of it!” For the better part of a decade, we’ve worked to normalize this idea in the electronics industry. However, when your ...

Digging deep for responsible aluminum
Fair Materials 09 December 2021
You probably don’t think about aluminum a lot. We do – it’s one of our 14 focus materials. But we really dug deep when we decided the Fairphone 4 was going to have an aluminum case rather than plastic. And it turns out, aluminum is really interesting. Start with this: ...
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iFixit Guest Blog: Important Notes to Take From Fairphone’s Design Team
All 02 December 2021
Last week at iFixit we did a teardown of the Fairphone 4, which earned an exceedingly rare 10/10 on our repairability scale. During that teardown, I was impressed with many of the decisions the Fairphone design team made. With repair legislation around the corner in most markets around the ...
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Raising the bar on smartphones in the EU
All 01 December 2021
We have already proven that it is possible to make a smartphone that is more sustainable and better for people and planet. But, you know us, we always aim to improve and encourage others in the industry to follow suit. What is the next thing we are planning, you ask? ...
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We’ve scaled Fairtrade gold
Fair Materials 30 November 2021
We have paved the way to source more Fairtrade gold! Together with Fairtrade, we have partnered with Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan in order to integrate more Fairtrade gold into our supply chain. Our relationship with Hirose and Fairtrade continues our support of ASM gold projects and miners. ...
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Pioneering the path to circularity
Long-Lasting Design 24 November 2021
The “circular economy”, a concept that is becoming more and more prominent in the current Zeitgeist. In short, it’s an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and facilitating the continual use of resources. A world in which we are genuinely circular is one where materials can be used, recycled ...
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Fair Tungsten: From conflict-free to building community
Fair Materials 28 October 2021
Studies show we’re making an impact in Rwanda In the north of Rwanda, near the city of Kidao, one of the country’s oldest tungsten mines is proving us right. Fairphone started out as a campaign to prove the phone industry could stop using materials that finance conflict and human rights abuses. ...
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Future proof: Fairphone has gone 5G
Product 27 October 2021
It is not new news that we strive to make the most of the materials used in our products. We’re moving closer to a circular economy by using materials from more responsible sources, emphasizing reuse and recycling, and designing our phones to last as long as possible. We do ...
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Reintroducing: Fairphone’s Reuse & Recycle Program
Reuse and Recycling 25 October 2021
We have relaunched our Reuse and Recycle Program. There are a lot of resources in your old smartphones and we want to make sure we make the most out of them, all the while keeping the environmental impact low and your benefits high. While the old program allowed people ...
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Making the fair choice easier: Fairphone 4 is here
News 30 September 2021
Today I can throw back the curtain and announce: The Fairphone 4 >> I joined Fairphone four years ago. I knew nothing about phones. But I did know something about chocolate. And supply chains. As First Lady of Chocolate at Tony’s Chocolonely, I knew what it was like to work at ...
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