{"id":114712,"date":"2023-06-06T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/sick-of-buying-a-new-phone-every-two-years-fairphones-last-for-years-and-dont-exploit-miners\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:54:48","slug":"sick-of-buying-a-new-phone-every-two-years-fairphones-last-for-years-and-dont-exploit-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/sick-of-buying-a-new-phone-every-two-years-fairphones-last-for-years-and-dont-exploit-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick of buying a new phone every two years? Fairphones last for years and don\u2019t exploit miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114712\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWant a smartphone that doesn\u2019t cost the earth? Here&#8217;s how Fairphone tackles e-waste, environmental damage and exploitation. Mobile phones are set to outnumber human beings two to one in the next couple of years, reaching a \u201cstunning\u201d 18 billion by 2025. Of the roughly 1.5 billion phones sold each year, only 20 per cent are recycled. Most of us are aware of this growing mountain of e-waste and its inverse: the mines where human rights are buried in pursuit of the minerals we need for our smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>But with phones at the centre of our lives, in our hands most of the day, it\u2019s convenient to ignore the harm they do. The ills of the mobile phone industry can feel like just another way that our everyday consumption causes harm from afar &#8211; like our appetite for avocados, or penchant for fast fashion. But there is another way. Even in this globalised system there is space to be an ethical consumer, and there\u2019s one phone that is leagues ahead by environmental and social metrics: the Fairphone.<\/p>\n<p>Launched by a Dutch social enterprise in 2012, the phone\u2019s unique selling point is that its parts are accessible &#8211; and therefore fixable &#8211; by screwdriver. Fairphone has also taken great care to source all its material parts as consciously as possible. With EU Green Week shedding a light on the circular economy, we sat down with Fairphone\u2019s Impact Innovation director Monique Lempers to get an inside perspective on the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Fairphone is striving to stretch the lifetime of a phone over five years, so double the average lifespan currently. It is doing this by making its modular device easily repairable. \u201cWe have YouTube videos where children repair it in two minutes,\u201d she says. \u201cSo it should really be possible for anyone.\u201d New components can also be swapped in, like an upgraded camera module.\u00a0In 2022, Fairphone estimates that it avoided 999 tonnes of CO2, largely due to the extended useful lifetime of its phones. That\u2019s the emissions that 650 Dutch households would create in a year through electricity consumption. Or more than 500 tonnes of coal burnt.<\/p>\n<p>Repairing damaged phones may be less expensive than you think, she adds, and can make your handset as good as new. And if your phone isn\u2019t functioning so well anymore, updating the software or trying a new battery are some more sustainable steps before buying a new one. More on these valuable products: around 60 different minerals and metals flow into our smartphones from all over the world, making up various components. Gold, for example, is in over 20 different components in a phone.<\/p>\n<p>The company identified 14 \u2018focus materials\u2019 that it either seeks to get in a recycled form, or source from fair mines. Fairphone doesn\u2019t bypass countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] where conflict minerals are rife. But they make sure that the cobalt, for example, comes from mines that support development and don\u2019t contribute to armed conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of production takes place in China, where most phone components are made. Again, Fairphone thinks it can have a \u201cpositive impact\u201d in the country, using its buying power to improve workers\u2019 conditions on the assembly line. The other dark truth is that e-waste is the fastest growing waste stream worldwide, says Lemper. This is because we\u2019re used to disposing of our electronics before they\u2019ve been optimally used. Moreover the e-waste is not well processed. Of the 20 per cent that is collected, we\u2019re only able to extract somewhere between 30 to 50 per cent of the minerals and the rest is burned or sent to landfills.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Fairphone Easy\u2019 approach incentivises consumers to hold onto the phone for longer, by reducing this fee over time. By making the company the phone\u2019s owner, it also rewards it for stretching the phone\u2019s lifetime with sustainable parts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/06\/05\/sick-of-buying-a-new-phone-every-two-years-fairphones-last-for-years-and-dont-exploit-mine\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/sick-of-buying-a-new-phone-every-two-years-fairphones-last-for-years-and-dont-exploit-miners\/\">Sick of buying a new phone every two years? 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