Extraction

Over 1,000 materials are used to make electronic products and its components.

Raw material shift from around the world to assembly plants.

Which are harmful ones?

Barium Beryllium Cadmium Copper Gold Hexavalent Chromium Lead Mercury Nickel Tin Zinc

•Helium•Argon•Potassium•Sodium•Calcium•Aluminium•Silver•Iron

These are the harmful ones

Barium Beryllium Cadmium Copper Gold Hexavalent

Chromium

•Lead •Mercury •Nickel •Tin• Zinc

Worker’s health

Mines and deep sea.Increasingly dangerous extraction methods

are used to retrieve scarce oil resources.Mining pollutes the water of surrounding

communities.Abandoned mine waste get released into

lakes, streams and the ocean, killing fish and contaminating drinking water.

CITY Zoning

Conflict Metal

The mining of metals for electronic products is fuelling a civil war

Resulted in the loss of more than five million lives so far

Shocking human rights violations including mass slaughter and violent rape.

Blood Diamond

A brutal war has been waging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the past 15 years.

The government and rebel armies finance their operations through mining tin, tantalum, and tungsten (known as the 3 Ts), as well as gold

For use in our cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, and game devices.