Toxic supply chain: EU companies profit from illegal mining in Indonesia

Uniunea Europeana

The intensive and often illegal exploitation of tin - a metal essential for the electronics industry, used in particular in solders, batteries and solar equipment - is causing major problems in Indonesia, where the state-owned company PT Timah collaborates with European companies Nokia, Volkswagen, Ericsson, Philips and Fairphone, according to an investigation published yesterday by the website Follow The Money. The cited source shows that the investigation carried out by The Gecko Project

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