As modern electronics affects the environment

At the international design festival, which takes place every year in London (Lоndon Dеsign Fеstival 2013), there was an unusual installation — the connection of dark, dirty water. Put them environmentalists from the NGO Friends of the Earth (friends of the Earth") for reasons of attracting the attention of European society to the problems of environmental pollution during resource extraction for the production of phones and tablets.



Explanatory inscriptions on coolers designed in the form of live chat or SMS and telling us about the serious consequences of tin mining on water resources, Indonesia: water becomes unsuitable for life. The finished brochure (available in PDF) is available enough telling us about the catastrophic situation on the island of Bangka, which falls on a third of all tin mined in the world.



Early "friends of the Earth has repeatedly appealed to the society and wrote many complaints to the company Apple as one of the largest consumers of tin for the production of millions of devices.

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