What does absolutely everyone who owns a smartphone or an electric car need to know?
What does everyone who owns a smartphone or an electric car need to know?
He must know that cell phone batteries and batteries for electric cars contain cobalt.
Cobalt comes to about 55% from the Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world. The cobalt for Apple comes entirely from the Congo.
The people who work there are extremely exploited and live a horror life.
And it is estimated that about 40,000 children work in these mines.
Dorson is eight years old and he works 12 hours a day in the mine.
He must know that both cell phone batteries and electric car batteries contain cobalt.
About 55% of cobalt comes from Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world. Apple's cobalt comes entirely from the Congo.
Those who work there are greatly exploited and live a life of terror.
It is estimated that approximately 40,000 children work in these mines.
Dorson is 8 years old and works 12 hours a day in the mines.
Despite the long hour, he has no shoes and hardly any food.
The man next to him threatens him with beatings if he does not work faster.
Despite the long hours, he had no shoes and almost no food.
If he doesn't hurry to work, the people next to him will threaten him with beatings.
Everyone here has terrible working conditions.
Children and adults work in the pouring rain, in ankle-deep mud, in this cobalt mine that supplies cobalt for Apple.
The working conditions of everyone here are terrible.
In this cobalt mine that supplies Apple with cobalt, children and adults work in the downpour of mud ankle-deep.
It is a terrible job. Children sift the mined rock with their bare hands.
It's a terrible job, and the children sift through the mined rocks with their bare hands.
They select the stones with the highest cobalt content and sort them into bags.
They chose the stones with the highest cobalt content and then sorted them into bags.
The wastewater from the mines poisons the drinking water in the area.
Mine wastewater contaminates drinking water in the area.