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16 GB mp3 players and the new blood minerals

  By iip | October 3, 2011 - 3:28 pm | Smart techno
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apple-ipod-touch-16-gbBe aware, your components of portable mp3 player or cellphones  could be sourced from the conflicts mineral in Congo.  Must consumers aren’t realize where their components of their mp3 players from. VOA says most (electronics) components are produced from minerals  mined by armed groups in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.

People must aware while buying mp3 players, cellphones or video game. The manufacture should buy minerals from conflict-free area. If you buy products that contain the minerals from conflict area such Congo, so you indirectly allows outlaws factions to continue a conflict that are brutal, violence conscription of child soldiers.

Raise Hope For Congo lists some minerals that traded by armed groups:

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Why we need to recycle our used cellphone

  By iip | August 20, 2011 - 12:54 am | Earth
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The booming of Blackberry and android recently have forced some of us to idle the old cellphone.

EPA launched national program on cellphone recycling as part of Earth Day 2009 celebration. This program enable you to power more houses with used cellphone!

Collaborate with  some big cellphone manufactures, EPA Plug-In To eCycling provides consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics . Two years ago, with the similar projects more than 47 million pounds of electronics, mostly computers and televisions has been collected and recycled.

Here some reasons why used cellphone need to be recycled:

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