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Guest Blog: iFixit and Fairphone Repair Guides
Reuse and Recycling 03 avril 2014
Editor’s Note: This week we hear from Kyle Wiens, the co-founder and CEO of iFixit, an online repair community internationally renowned for open source repair manuals and product teardowns. Fairphone is happy to announce our partnership with iFixit as Fairphone spare parts and repair guides are now live on ...
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Defining Sustainable (Choices): Can We Rely on Certification?
Non classifié(e) 21 février 2014
Almost one year ago, one week before opening the pre-sales, Bas shared our road map to a « fairer phone. » As you all know by now, the pillars in this road map focus on creating a more sustainable value chain in five action areas: precious minerals, made with care, smart ...
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First Visit: Ghana E-waste Collection Program
Reuse and Recycling 13 février 2014
[Editor’s Note: In this blog post, team members Bibi and Raluca deliver their report on their recent trip to Ghana, where they were accompanied by Joost de Kluijver of Closing the Loop. They discuss the scope of their trip, introduce partners, talk about the meetings they conducted, and give ...
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Taking Back Phones for a Circular Economy: E-waste in Ghana
Reuse and Recycling 21 novembre 2013
Editor’s Note: For this week’s blog post, our community manager Joe sat down with Bibi (Research and Outreach) to talk about our ambition to address the full life cycle of the phone. First step in this big mission: create a take-back plan that begins to address e-waste in Ghana. ...
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Our Approach to Research: Forming Working Groups
Reuse and Recycling 24 octobre 2013
While the first Fairphones are in the final stages of production and approaching the assembly period, some of us on the team are already trying to actually « quantify » the potential impact of the Fairphone and engage in many research trajectories. Yes, we know that most of you would like ...
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Guest Blog: The Restart Project on FP Repairability
Reuse and Recycling 03 octobre 2013
Editor’s Note: What’s the « repairability » of the first Fairphone? In this guest post, Ugo Valluari, co-founder of The Restart Project, discusses his team’s analysis and teardown of an early prototype. Keep in mind – within the constraints of our first-year funding model, we selected and licensed an existing design ...
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What’s in a Life-Cycle Assessment?
Reuse and Recycling 01 août 2013
I suppose some (or most!) of you are concerned about the environmental issues related to the shiny, cool Fairphone-to-be, right? Some of you have already showed specific interest in our carbon, water, or ecological footprint. So I want to take the opportunity to give you an update about what’s ...
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Adventures in After-Sales
Reuse and Recycling 11 juillet 2013
When Bas first told me that Gabriel and I were going to be in charge of distribution, repair and take back, the first thing I thought was “OK, Gabriel, me and how many more?” Then I realized that the much of product management rested on the shoulders of Miquel ...
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Circular Economies with "Closing the Loop"
Reuse and Recycling 29 janvier 2013
Fair products should have an end-of-life phase that is fair to society. What we’re seeing right now is that electronics are causing problems due to the absence of end-of-life processes in many developing countries. Closing the Loop has shown that a pragmatic approach can lead to a solution that ...
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