{"id":146867,"date":"2025-05-20T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=146867"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:01:15","slug":"the-dirty-mobile-phone-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=146867","title":{"rendered":"The Dirty Mobile Phone Industry\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsC0hPPDhZY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A mobile phone is sold every 57 seconds meaning that there are now more mobile phones on the planet than toothbrushes. We investigated the shameful secrets of the multinationals who produce our mobile phones. They are the big winners of the mobile revolution as their profits explode but what is the human and environmental cost in the production countries of China and the Congo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mobile phone is sold every 57 seconds meaning that there are now more mobile phones on the planet than toothbrushes. We investigated the shameful secrets of the multinationals who produce our mobile phones. They are the big winners of the mobile revolution as their profits explode but what is the human and environmental cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[1449,4122,4123],"class_list":["post-146867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-documentary","tag-environmental-cost","tag-human-cost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-dirty-mobile-phone-industry.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127893,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=127893","url_meta":{"origin":146867,"position":0},"title":"How mobile phones are becoming the new credit card","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"11\/07\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Mr litman and thenextweb Original Article","rel":"","context":"In &quot;all other stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23118,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=23118","url_meta":{"origin":146867,"position":1},"title":"How mobile phones are becoming the new credit card","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"11\/07\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Mr litman and thenextweb","rel":"","context":"In &quot;trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"trends","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=162"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/files\/2011\/07\/GLG_Goodbye_Wallets_FINAL-L_1841.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3650,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=3650","url_meta":{"origin":146867,"position":2},"title":"Symphonia","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"23\/10\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R3nSoEhY8SM Watch the TXT message symphony played from 1000 mobile phones in \u00a0 Vodafone's latest ad Symphonia! 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