Is This the Green Phone's Moment?

摘要

As far as human rights and the environment are concerned, smartphones are a nightmare. They're packed with metals mined in war zones. They're built in working conditions it would be generous to call questionable. They're difficult to repair. And they're really hard to recycle upon their planned obsolescence, meaning they quickly add to the world's growing pile of toxic electronic waste. For six years, a company in Amsterdam has been trying to break that cycle. Finally, Eva Gouwens says, people are starting to take notice.