https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywavwx/the-fairphone-3-is-a-more-powerful-sustainable-repairable-smartphone

Fairphone has just announced the Fairphone 3, which promises to be a fairly sourced, recyclable, repairable, and sustainable smartphone among a crowded field of ecologically destructive products.

The costs of a global electronics industry centered around gadgets that are planned to go obsolete every few years are already high. In China, where the majority of rare earth minerals in consumer products are mined, intensive resource extraction and industrial production have created “cancer villages” that dot the polluted landscape. Working conditions in these mines and factories regularly drive workers to suicide. But even if the ecological costs and human rights issues were resolved, there is still the question of whether sustainable development can create supply chains in the face of growing demand and waste.