Fairphone
24 April 2026
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Summing up our 2025 Impact Report
Whenever people ask us what we do at Fairphone, the easiest answer is that we make sustainable technology. To which people usually respond,
“Er, but how do you make technology sustainable?”
Every year, we release our Impact Report, which deep-dives into all our efforts to make our supply chain fairer in superfine detail. However, we also understand a 60-page report (not counting the annexes) might be quite daunting. So we put together this quick cheat sheet with 15 key highlights.
Here are the highlights from Fairphone's 2025 Impact Report
- DOUBLE THE INDUSTRY AVERAGE LIFESPAN: Fairphone devices continue to last nearly twice the industry average, with an expected lifespan almost double the market average for Fairphone 3(+) and beyond. 40% of Fairphone 3 devices are still in active use seven years after their launch!
- AVOIDED NATURAL RESOURCE USE: Thanks to our extended product lifespans, we avoided the use of a million cubic meters of freshwater and nearly 15 tons of raw material extraction in 2025. That’s enough water to meet the annual needs of the entire country of Monaco and enough rock and ore to fill an entire school bus!
- AVOIDED EMISSIONS: We also avoided over 2000 tons of CO₂e emissions in 2025. Imagine someone flying over a thousand times from Amsterdam to New York and back. Same carbon footprint!
- LOWER PRODUCT CARBON FOOTPRINT: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) has our lowest product carbon footprint yet at 29 kg CO₂e. That’s a whopping 30% drop, compared to the Fairphone 5 (42 kg CO₂e). This was made possible due to the extended battery life on the newer generation, as well as the use of renewable energy in its manufacturing and assembly.
- ASSEMBLED WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY: 28% of electricity used in component manufacturing now comes from renewable sources. Fun fact: Did you know our headquarters in Amsterdam is powered by 100% Dutch wind energy?
- MORE FAIR AND RECYCLED MATERIALS THAN EVER: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) and the refreshed Fairbuds XL both contain over 50% fair and recycled materials. This includes elements like gold, silver, cobalt, copper, aluminum, lithium, rare earth elements, and more.
- FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE ACCESSORIES: We also launched a line of cables and chargers utilizing high percentages of recycled content, including 100% recycled copper in wires and up to 98% recycled plastics.
- EXPANDING MINERALS CREDIT SYSTEMS: While we continued accounting for 100% of our cobalt, gold, and silver consumption through credits, we also extended our mineral credits model this year to include copper as well. Mineral credits directly fund improvements at small-scale and artisanal mine sites by investing in better working conditions and equipment for miners, as well as enhanced waste management processes for better environmental management.
- FAIRPHONE'S LIVING WAGE BONUS PROGRAM: We distributed USD$215,000 in living wage bonuses to 1,650 workers across five supplier factories in 2025, bringing the total distributed to date to over USD$1.25 million!
- FAIRER WORKING CONDITIONS: Over 11,000 people in the supply chain experienced fairer working conditions. We realized a total of 88 specific improvements at (sub-)supplier factories in areas such as health, safety, and worker voice.
- CHEMICAL SAFETY: We also became the first company to eliminate the use of all Clean Electronics Production Network (CEPN) round 2 priority chemicals in final assembly.
- E-WASTE NEUTRALITY: At 97% e-waste neutrality, almost every single Fairphone product on the market in 2025 was 100% e-waste-neutral. In total, we collected 30 metric tons of electronic waste last year as well.
- NEW CERTIFICATIONS: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) earned an EU Energy Label A rating, and the Fairbuds XL became the first consumer audio product to receive the LONGTIME® durability certification. We were also recertified by B Corp for the third time in a row with our highest score yet at 136.8 points.
- REDUCED GHG EMISSIONS: We reduced total Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 7.3% compared to the 2022 baseline, and this comes even with our significant business growth last year.
- GOOD BUSINESS: We achieved our strongest sales performance to date with nearly 150,000 devices sold. That’s a 41% increase year-over-year. Our community grew by leaps and bounds as well, with more than 70% of Fairphone (Gen. 6) customers being first-time Fairphone buyers.
Our impact report proves how we are bringing our mission to life every day. We are proving to the world that not only is there a better way to make the technology we use every day, but also there is an ever-growing demand for tech that is made fairer and is truly sustainable.
So the next time someone asks you how technology can be sustainable, you know exactly what to tell them.
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