Fairphone will invest €6.5 million to make fair responsible electronics mainstream.They expect to upscale the production, expand it’s distribution network, continuing innovation and increasing its influence in the supply chain. These investments enables them to…
E-waste is a growing problem and electronic companies are contributing to it because it is getting increasingly complex to repair mobile devices. Together with iFixit, Greenpeace ranked 40 different smartphones, tablets and laptops based on…
Two members of the Value Chain team of Fairphone visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to learn more about the conditions in which cobalt is mined. Cobalt is an essential part of mobile phones….
Together with The Dragonfly Initiative, Fairphone is working on a scoping study on the social and environmental issues in materials that are found in smartphones. After identifying the main materials to focus on, they now…
Fairphone aims to support fair materials and incorporate them into their smartphones. Since smartphones contain hundreds of different materials, Fairphone decided to prioritize. Together with The Dragonfly Initiative, they created an overview of key sustainability…
With an interactive map that shows the different materials, suppliers and manufacturing locations involved in making their phone, Fairphone shows what serious efforts towards transparency look like. The company explains that all known suppliers to…
With the integration of conflict-free tungsten in the supply chain, Fairphone has now set up traceable supply chains for all four (tungsten, tin, tantalum and Fairtrade gold) internationally recognized conflict minerals. About fifty percent of…
Rankabrand has compared and ranked 19 electronics brands like Apple, Dell, HP, HTC, Huawei, Nintendo, Samsung. The questions used for ranking are categorised into three areas: Labour Conditions and Human Rights, Climate Change, and Ecology….
A few days after the start of Fairphone’s pre-order campaign for its Fairphone 2, Südwind, SOMO and the GoodElectronics Network are publishing a comparitive review The report ‘TCO Certified Smartphones versus Fairphone. A comparison of…