Apple Investigating Indonesian Tin Production for Illegal Mining

[lkrupp]

Remember this!

As the whole world knows by now, Apple, and ONLY Apple, products are made from illegally mined tin. When will this evil-to-the-core company be finally driven out of business by ecologically minded consumers who choose to buy from ethical companies like Samsung or Dell?

 

[TsunamiTheClown]

I saw that photo and got real excited that Apple had discovered a new element to make iphones out of. The article was much more depressing.

Ikr. I was sure this was the iRock that i have been waiting for... alas.

 

[kdarling]

As the whole world knows by now, Apple, and ONLY Apple, products are made from illegally mined tin. When will this evil-to-the-core company be finally driven out of business by ecologically minded consumers who choose to buy from ethical companies like Samsung or Dell?

EVERY company in the US has to do this mineral source investigation by law now every year.

Apple is the one who posted what they were doing, for everyone to see.

With fame, comes coverage, which is exactly what Apple wanted.

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[Shrink]

I see.

All exploitation and environmental destruction is therefore inherently ethical.

I'm sorry if I'm missing the sarcasm, if that was what was intended....but are you suggesting that intentional exploitation of people and environmental destruction are NOT unethical?

 

[tbrinkma]

Remember Man's first tool was a femur, which he used to attack his fellow ape-man for a drink.... Have we come any further in 2 million years?

Of course we have!

We have *much* better tools these days.

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Illegal tin is the best kind of tin.

No. Rin tin tin is the best kind of tin.

 

[zyro70]

So... This is probably because of recent legislation which requires companies to know exactly where it's getting its minerals.

Do some research on conflict minerals. I know we want to think they did it because they care, and hopefully that is a part of it too. But in the manufacturing industry conflict minerals have been a big focus because of new compliance laws.

See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_minerals

 

[sdtjdstiuhu]

Very glad to see them taking these issues seriously...

 

[Verbatim Cookie]

I might be wrong here, but I do not believe that it is right or correct to judge every other country in the world by what are currently american standards. For instance, there was a mention of apple firing a supplier because they were using child labor. That sounds really great on the surface, but is it really? What if those jobs were the only option for those children and without those jobs the children simply starve to death.

China is a developed nation, and a prosperous one to boot. While that prosperity isn't shared equally among its populace (i.e., no doubt a number of Chinese are impoverished) it's not unreasonable to believe that no Chinese child has it that bad.

 

[usersince86]

totally disagree

Not Always.

Sorry dude...there are some people that aren't even worth more than the dirt in the ground. They are dredges to humanity and society and are beyond reform or redemption.

There's one of these right now on trial in Boston.

Couldn't disagree with you more. Obviously our worldviews are different, but I believe that people are more valuable than any sum of money. Even if they've done horrible things. And no one is beyond redemption, if they're willing to be redeemed.

 

[seveej]

I appreciate Apple publicly noting the problems with tin production worldwide, especially on Bangka.

That said, I'm not dissing those companies who do the same acts without making a fuss of them. That said, I'd like all companies to emphasize the actions they are forced to take and the trade-offs they are forced to make to be able to serve us consumers with seemingly sterile consumer products.

Let's (we consumers) stop fussing about the amount of packaging used for products and in stead show an interest for the amount of resources and energy expended for production and logistics.

RGDS,

 

[otismotive77]

wow, good work! human rights is the most important thing