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22 Jun 2016

Author:
Sustainable Brands

Fairphone now ensures its supply chain free of all 4 conflict minerals

"Fairphone Achieves Traceable Supply for All Four Conflict Minerals; Your Move, Industry" 20 June 2016

Fairphone has successfully managed to transparently source all four of the conflict minerals (tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold)…Fairphone began in 2010 as a campaign to increase awareness for the use of conflict minerals in consumer electronics…The starting point of the mineral supply chain – the mining sector – is often fraught with environmental and human rights abuses ranging from pollution and dangerous working conditions to child labor…In some instances, mining and trading of these so-called ‘conflict minerals’ have contributed to fund rebel groups and thus support conflict and other adverse impacts, including serious human rights abuses…Fairphone wanted to find a way to source traceable, conflict-free minerals directly from countries like the DRC to improve the mining practices and incomes of the communities most affected by conflict…The company wants to pave the way for the rest of the electronics industry to show that traceable mineral sourcing is indeed possible.