Fair Materials and Working Conditions in FP 3

According to the Impact report Fairphone already worked on 7 materials with the FP2 in 2017:

  • Cobalt (*)
  • Copper (30% recycled -> >50% in the FP3 according to Laura at the Launch event (28:10))
  • Gold (fair trade)
  • Plastic (50% recycled)
  • Tantalum (conflict free)
  • Tin (conflict free)
  • Tungsten (conflict free)

(*) Cobalt is not officially considered a conflict mineral, but Fairphone has identified similar challenges along the supply chain as with Gold, Tantalum, Tin & Tungsten and is working on improvements.

According to this blog post (also from 2017) they are concentrating on 10 materials where they want to improve things, which also include:

  • Galium
  • Indium
  • Nickel
  • Rare earths
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