The mobile revolution’s hidden cost

As mobile phone sales pass the 3 billion mark, is it time to survey the full reality of the technology’s environmental impact?Late last year, the mobile phone industry passed a remarkable milestone, one that not so many years ago it didn’t even expect to reach. Media sites and blogs around the world buzzed as the news was announced with equal measures of excitement, amazement and, in some cases, guarded jealousy. We’ll never know who it was, or where it was, but on that day someone, somewhere bought a mobile phone and tipped global sales past the 3 billion mark. “More than half the world’s population now own a phone” was a typical headline.
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