Moblie phones
Moblie phones
- Created by: Maryam Mohamed
- Created on: 29-01-15 14:45
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- Mobile Phones
- A supply chain is the journey a product goes through from the producer to the consumer
- it begins with raw materials and ends with the disposal of a product after the consumer has finished
- Material extraction: Republic of Congo produces Tantalum
- Research and development
- Manufacture: 1/2 of mobile phones made in China
- End-of-life: the phone is broken
- Recycling: some are shipped to china for recycling
- Disposal: end up at a landsite or incinerator
- Recycling: some are shipped to china for recycling
- End-of-life: the phone is broken
- Manufacture: 1/2 of mobile phones made in China
- Research and development
- Material extraction: Republic of Congo produces Tantalum
- it begins with raw materials and ends with the disposal of a product after the consumer has finished
- Producers
- Most of the country's mineral deposits are in the east.
- 1000s of people move to mining camps to earn a living wage
- Uganda and Rwanda supported rebel groups fighting the government. They are funded by money from coltan
- Working conditions
- they are dangerous, workers are not provide with safety equipment
- Often they go down in flip flops + t-shirt. Sometimes the mines would collapse on them
- they are dangerous, workers are not provide with safety equipment
- Child Labour
- 10 or thousands of children are employed as miners
- Children are leaving the studies to become miners, one school 30% dropped
- 10 or thousands of children are employed as miners
- Pay
- Coltan miners are paid very low wages: $1 a day.
- at $422, the Republic of Congo had the lowest GDP
- Most of the country's mineral deposits are in the east.
- A supply chain is the journey a product goes through from the producer to the consumer
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