STEP 6: Insist that manufacturers prioritize safer chemicals, less extractions and worker protections
Buy raw materials only from sources that verify worker and environmental protections. Make modular, repairable electronics that reuse and repurpose ink cartridges and batteries. Make battery replacement easy and fire-safe. At the design stage, plan for a device's second life.
STEP 7: Trace supply chains involved in the Internet's data centers and access networks-- and in electricity, solar PVs, industrial wind turbines, vehicles, battery energy storage systems and more!
RESOURCES For RESEARCH
Chemicals
Compound Interest, "The Chemical Elements of a Smartphone," Feb., 2014. www.compoundchem.com/2014/02/19/the-chemical-elements-of-a-smartphone/
Green Chemistry & Commerce Council Click Here
Green Screen for Safer Chemicals: finding safer chemicals and environmentally preferable products. https://www.greenscreenchemicals.org/
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition www.svtc.org
White, Heather and Lynn Zhang, "Complicit," 2017. Film about computer assembly workers' exposure to n-hexane.
Energy
Coma, Miguel, "Energy policies in the hyperconnected era: 5G's environmental paradox."
Smil, Vaclav, "Your Phone Costs Energy-- Even Before You Turn It On," IEEE Spectrum, April 2016.
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