By purchasing the right gadget, you can do your bit for the environment.
Introducing: Fairphone 5 | The modular smartphone | Fairphone
Fairphone, known for its commitment to sustainability and repairable products backed by long-term software support, has unveiled its latest smartphone. The Fairphone 5 contains over 70 percent fair-trade or recycled materials, including responsibly sourced minerals. It’s part of a growing emphasis on eco-friendly personal electronics.
“It’s important to recycle rare earths because they’re so scarce outside of China,” tech analyst Bob Bilbruck, the CEO of Captjur, told Lifewire in an email interview. “About 90 percent of all rare earths are mined and refined within China’s borders.”
The Fairphone 5 uses ethically sourced materials like gold, lithium and tungsten from better managed mines, and recycled elements like aluminum, tin, rare earth metals, nickel, zinc, copper, magnesium, indium and plastics in the supply chain.
