On August 1st some 735,000 end-of-life phones filling two sea containers arrived to Antwerp. Closing the Loop (CTL) partnered with several organizations in Rwanda and Uganda to collect this phones. The phones have been transferred to…
In just 10 years, more than 7 billion smartphones have been produced. Greenpeace pulled the stats to show how our consumption habit is affecting our planet. Can you guess how many smartphones are thrown away…
Capitalandmain.nl published the article of Julianne Tveten: Who Will Clean Up Silicon Valley’s E-wasteland? She writes about the conditions that contribute to the production of e-waste, about the solutions and who is most responsible for reaching a…
Closing the Loop has to wait only one more week to receive two new containers with used phones at their recycling partners in Belgium. This is a great milestone. What has happened in the past…
Taiwan-based Foxconn plans to invest $7 billion in a U.S. manufacturing facility. Where it places its factory has as much to do with politics as business. Foxconn said it’s evaluating potential locations and discussing options…
Recent legislative and political developments around the world illustrate the continuing increase of precarious work. Trade unions are fighting back. A recent study in the UK shows that young people employed on zero-hour contracts are…
Foxconn has firmed up plans to invest up to $5 billion in India. As it looks to make the country a parallel manufacturing hub to China for export to key markets across Europe and the…
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, is aiming to begin exports to the Middle East and African countries by December from India as it begins talking to suppliers to set up base in the fastest…
Samsung Electronics earnings are expected to hit $12 billion. The growth in profit was driven largely by the success of the company’s semiconductor business. On the other side Samsung management discourages employees from speaking up…
SHARPS has scored two legal wins in a single day, achieving new momentum in its ongoing effort to hold Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd accountable for the occupational disease cluster. Samsung LCD and Leukemia On July…