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Fairphone stepping up on fair lithium
Fair Materials 19 juli 2021
Here at Fairphone we have joined and are members of several sustainable and ethical initiatives that address both social and environmental issues. From being B Corp certified to receiving a gold certification from Fairtrade, we always strive for excellence. More recently, we have become a member of IRMA (Initiative ...
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Into the deep
Geen onderdeel van een categorie 08 juli 2021
Remember our Materials 101 series of blogs where we introduced the distinction between artisanal mining (ASM) and large-scale mining? Well, potentially, there is another type of mining to enter the mix: deep-sea mining or DSM. How does DSM connect to responsible, fair materials? The answer is not so easy ...
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Tackling child labor: A joint force
Fair Materials 20 mei 2021
A consortium of partners, led by Fairphone, implemented a project in Busia, Uganda from July 2017 until March 2021. The project aim was to improve and support the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) communities by eradicating child labor and establishing a sustainable, traceable gold supply chain that creates a ...
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How can “Fair Sourcing” change the electronics industry?
Geen onderdeel van een categorie 18 mei 2021
At Fairphone, we get lots of questions. From “how much does the Fairphone 3 cost?” to “what is the current approach to the living wage in China?”, there’s a constant flow of information in and out of the Fairphone HQ. One of the most common questions, though, is one ...
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Our North Star: The Material Roadmap
Fair Materials 04 maart 2021
At Fairphone, we continuously strive for a transparent product. We tell you everything we know about what goes into your phone, but we also know there is more to know. We collected full materials declaration on more than 90% of the components used in our phone, and through a ...
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Fair Materials 101: Going beyond conflict-free materials
Geen onderdeel van een categorie 25 februari 2021
Everyone who has read the book or seen the movie Blood Diamond knows something about conflict materials. They’re raw materials or minerals that come from a particular part of the world where war or armed struggle is occurring, affecting the mining and trading of those materials. The conflict focuses ...
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Fair Materials 101: What is Urban Mining and how can it be fair?
Fair Materials 22 februari 2021
When we think of mining, we normally think of it as happening on the outskirts of town. The prospector’s cry is “There’s gold in them there hills” .. not “There’s gold in them there dumpsters.” But when people throw their phones and other electronic waste away rather than recycling ...
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Fair Materials 101: How can mining be used for good?
Fair Materials 08 februari 2021
As we discussed in the previous blog of this series, cutting mining out of the electronics industry is not realistic. For the foreseeable future, mining is here to stay and as such, we have a responsibility to push for and demand responsible mining improvements. Could we actually use mining ...
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Fair Materials 101: Why we can’t turn our back on mining
Fair Materials 28 januari 2021
The “circular economy”: a concept that is becoming more and more prominent in the current Zeitgeist. Whether it’s an Instagram ad for a recycled-fiber sweater tagged with #circular, or an ambitious European Commission action plan, the idea is catching on – and catching up. A circular economy is an economic ...
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