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The shaming images that show where our iPhones, laptops and EV car batteries REALLY come from: The truth about the Congolese mines where kids are paid $2-a-day to dig for cobalt(Does anybody care?)
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The shaming images that show where our iPhones, laptops and EV car batteries REALLY come from: The truth about the Congolese mines where kids are paid $2-a-day to dig for cobalt

A new series of images taken from inside cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo raise uncomfortable questions for American tech companies claiming to be 'clean'. Cobalt is the chemical element is found in almost every tech gadget that uses a lithium-powered batter on the market today - a smartphone, tablet or laptop requires a few grams of it, while an electric vehicle requires 10kg. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Tesla and others all say the mines aren't their responsibility, and that it's down to their partners to ensure they are run safely, and humanely. The photos and videos that DailyMail.com can share today tell a different story.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11668015/Devastating-photos-cobalt-mines-Democratic-Republic-Congo-power-Apple-Tesla-more.html#video

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