One of every two mobile phones is manufactured in China. In 2008, makeITfair published a report about poor working conditions at factories that mobile phone companies source from. One year later, two of the factories…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
Despite the independent union movement’s continued push for greater freedom of association, major obstacles to achieving this right persist, including corruption in Mexican labour institutions and endemic obstruction practices by employers and government. In the…
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate change solution on the table in Copenhagen and in the halls of Congress. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or…
Today, Dell announced the transfer of ownership of the Polish Dell factory in Lodz to one of the world’s biggest electronics producers, Foxconn. Dell expects the European Commission to approve the transfer in the coming…
The report: “Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine” features seven companies who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most — or in some cases all — uses of brominated…
On 19 November 2009, Representative Mike Thompson introduced a resolution that calls on the US Congress to craft a plan to deal with its own e-waste, only using recyclers certified to the new e-Stewards Standard…
Warranty provider SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty plans and found that one-third of all laptops will fail within 3 years. Lap tops of nine brands…
Eighteen top multinational and Chinese corporations, including Motorola and Samsung violated a new Chinese environmental regulation in its first year of enforcement, a Greenpeace report has shown. The report, entitled ‘Silent Giants. An investigation into…
In May 2009, the EU’s regulator concluded that chip giant Intel had illegally used rebates to induce customers not to do business with its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ordered Intel to pay a…