GoodElectronics member Closing the Loop video explains the steps they take to turn potential e-waste into a source of income, preventing environmental damage in the process. “The major e-waste challenge can’t be solved by…
20 metric tons of cobalt, more than one ton of tungsten, one ton of silver, 100 kilograms of gold, and 20 to 60 kilograms of palladium: this collection of resources is inside the 4.3 million…
On November 22 the European Union (EU) has taken a first step towards cleaning up Europe’s trade in minerals. According to a broad coalition of NGOs, this first attempt is positive, but also half-hearted. EU…
Migrant workers at a Samsung microwave factory in Malaysia find themselves with large debts to labour agencies and work twelve to fourteen hours a day with very little time to eat or drink. The Guardian…
A recent report from Bloomberg shows that the mining of gold in Colombia often fuels human rights violations in local communities. An estimated 87 percent of Colombia’s gold is produced in informal or illegal mines. Once…
Half a square kilometer in Mexico City is dedicated almost entirely to the recycling of e-waste. Bloomberg Business visited the neighborhood of Renovación to see how recycling activities are affecting the local community, and they looked…
On paper, it seems that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has a system in place to detect human rights abuses in the supply chains of minerals like tin, tantalum and gold. In…
San Jose, November 11, 2016 — This week the GoodElectronics Network and the International Campaign for Responsible Technology (IRCT) launched the online Chemical Challenge Gap Analysis, showing just how far the manufacturing standards developed by…
GoodElectronics member Repórter Brasil celebrates fifteen years of exposing companies that are involved in human rights violations. The organisation’s executive secretary, Marcel Gomes, wrote a reflection on the role of Repórter Brasil. Gomes states that…