Smartphones seem to be everywhere these days, and they’re fraught with both environmental and social issues – from their use of conflict minerals to poor conditions for the workers who make them.
A social enterprise behind a new ‘ethical’ smartphone, the Fairphone, aims to change that by using conflict-free raw materials for the devices, paying the workers who manufacture them a fair wage, and working to set up e-waste recycling programs for taking care of electronics at the end of their useful life.