Last month, over 70 students from the UK and Ireland congregated in Manchester for People & Planet’s annual Summer Training event – Power Shift: Training for Change. Supported by the Good Electronics Network, a day was dedicated developing students’ understanding of the labour rights issues…
Foxconn has been responsible for some of the most reprehensible labor practices of the twenty-first century, but not only in China. Read this interesting article of Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller about this transnational Taiwanese corporation and it’s dubious management worldwide. If you want to believe…
Motherboard wrote: “We all know it’s not easy to repair a Samsung Galaxy S8. How is it possible this phone earned a “gold” rating from the nonprofit Green Electronics Council under its Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) certification?” America’s green electronics standards have been…
Toshiba will build new production lines at its main semiconductor memory plant to address a demand increase. Subsidiary Toshiba Memory foresees this increase in 2018 and will bear the entire cost of this planned 195 billion yen ($1.76 billion) investment. Talks with Western Digital on…
The New York Times reported that Apple pulled down several VPN apps from its Chinese App Store. These apps are programs that allow iPhone users to bypass the Chinese government’s censorship apparatus. Apple’s silence may be tactical; the Chinese government, the conventional thinking goes, does not take…
With the technology having boosted its TV business, LG is now also in the field of smartphones Apple will switch from LCD to OLED panels for it’s next generation iPhones. These new phones will be introduced next year and will be a bonanza for Samsung…
South Korean prosecutors sought a 12-year jail term for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee. The charges include allegedly bribing the former president for government support to help Lee cement control of the group. The court ruling is expected before August 27th, when Lee’s…
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 CTL’s partner Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) and will be professionally…
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 every day? To save Earth’s limited resources — and our…
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 truly effective solution. The years 2014 and 2015 produced approximately…