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The smartphone you’re probably reading this article on is putting a huge strain on the planet. In the case of the iPhone, more than 30 kilograms of ore had to be mined to extract the metals inside the iPhone, from the nickel and cobalt in the battery to the rare earths in the touchscreen.
Larger quantities of such “important metals”…
Source: www.newscientist.com