The new iPhone4 is the result of progress made by Apple in the environmental field and is designed with features that reduce environmental impact.
A customer tried to ask Steve Jobs whether a provider of Apple using raw materials from areas in which ongoing bloody conflict in the exploitation of minerals such as columbite and tantalite. Apple CEO responded that providers require a written certification stating with the use of “conflict free”.
The subsoil of the Congo is rich in Columbia and tantalite minerals that constitute the coltan, a raw material used for the construction of switches, computers, game consoles and mobile phones, optimizing the consumption of electricity and is one of the factors contributing to the duration the battery.
80% of the deposits of these minerals are in the Congo and the extraction of these valuable materials is the origin of the civil war in the country. The coltan, in fact, great economic and strategic importance and is sought after by industries that create electronic devices, computer, aerospace industry.
In recent years the value of the mineral grew up excessively and the people involved in collection work until physical exhaustion in the mines just to feed the army and rebels who have found an inexhaustible source of enrichment in the ore.