cultural riches were brutally stolen from africa and carted off to europe by colonialists. each artifact has blood on it from wounds that have yet to heal. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. so many so we'll start september 7th on d w. making phone calls browsing the internet taking photographs shopping our lives increasingly revolve around smartphones to take he's like eunice kohn yes these devices a fun move and just telephones discover him so i'm one of those old people who don't just view the smartphone as

a utilitarian object that if i could get really enthusiastic about design a good display geist on every year filmmakers flood the market with new models and they're prepared to go to extreme lengths to sell them scripts officiating the tactic and the use various tactics there are strong suggestions that the devices are built to break as soon as possible and 1400000000 new smartphones are sold annually. is the price in our digital lifestyle. barcelona spain you tube influencing jonas's come here to report on the latest smartphone trends the 21 year old regularly tests the latest devices and posts his videos on the internet the most important industry sector inventor of the year is a rich initiation to be held here today hey tapes a warm welcome from barcelona where the mobile world congress was meant to take

place but. the world's largest mobile technologies trade fair was canceled because of code 19 but some manufacturers were determined to showcase their new products all the same. despite the risks of getting infected the tech fans crowded around the latest devices yet major innovations are increasingly few and far between according to the onus. is it starts and i increasingly advise people against buying a new device each year because the differences just aren't so great that manufacturers think out new forms to get people. if the by like folding devices for example but for $2500.00 euro's only a test will show whether the device can be recommended on the hottest test site. high prices and few new developments despite the facts chickies flocked to smartphone presentations like this besides your own as conyers you tube influencer

to be is dukie is also. the lawyers i buy a new smartphone about once a year i bought several since the new high g. devices came out it's within 247 it's my alarm clock my i listen to music on a i watch videos all in the train at work i take notes on our i use it for everything. for most people here life without a smartphone is inconceivable. in his lectures field exuma and foul explains the impact to digitalize action on humans and the environment the sociologist knows that she knew phones can boost people self image. you missed the reasons our mom is the author of yes we develop a very strong bond with these devices. that they're incredibly personal. to contain important messages they contain our lists are friends of basically they're an

extension of us by thought this just. filmmakers hype every new smartphone that they bring out turning these devices into months time stop products. and most of the cost to get it you have to consider how the presentation of these devices are staged at big show we have answers a lot of applause for it it's only a new smartphone they're not saving the world just bringing out a new smartphone or those of us on this is i find what annoys small people. more and more smartphones are flooding into the market and the. manufactures tactics are having dramatic consequences. on average a cell phone contained 16 grams of copper 6 grams of cobalt 3 tenths of a gram of silver and 3 hundreds of a gram of gold amongst other things that might not sound like a lot but it sure adds up and many of these commodities unlined in crisis

arrangements for example cobalt that is used in smartphone batteries. almost 2 thirds of the world's cobalt comes from one single country the democratic republic of congo. cobalt is mine here in the town of coal way seat in the south of the country. but the people here have nothing to show for the smartphone boom there's no running water. no sewage system. no waste disposal collection. and yet the locals are trying to earn a bit from the smartphone hype manuel and his friends dig for cobalt each day in a minute town and. are very good at. it would want. to have more of your life but the simple

head torches of the only special equipment that they have to perform their dangerous jobs. are barefooted and without a rope they descend 45 meters deep into the year. one false step could mean certain death. for progress toward. its narrow and halt in the pit in. all of. us i want to watch and. but it was. the men hack at the rock with rudimentary tools and shovel the cobalt all into sacks. after just a few minutes the air is like a little cobalt dust. it's highly toxic and can cause serious lung damage

without masks breathing becomes more and more difficult. but. it's a dirty job and without as our high tech smartphones wouldn't exist. the stones contain 80 percent cobalt these men risked their lives every day for the production of mobile phone batteries. for a. major while much of what the mix up with was a boon in other pits there are lots of deaths because they don't work safely but what we take care what about nothing has ever happened here but we got here. it's back breaking work that supports our digital lifestyle does the cobalt used by may

just smartphone makers also come from minds like those up with 1st with sustainability reports there to search in the best piastre we're proud to be recognized as a worldwide leader in the responsible sourcing of minerals in our products we're committed to one day sourcing 100 percent recycled on renewable materials we envision a future where our devices are made with materials that follow a circular supply chain model using only recycled and renewable sources eliminating our reliance on mining. apple doesn't explicitly rule out the possibility that current i phones might contain cobalt from the type of pits we have seen the. mand for cobalt is huge because many users replaced their cell phones in less than 2 years and felix suman found says the phone makers are often responsible for that. risk it's officiating to talk to the there are so many tactics that indicate that the devices are intentionally built to break as soon as possible which for example

when the battery no longer works. or often it's a complete write off and you're kind of forced into buying a new smartphone earthshine noise smart phones the coffee. is that really true it's an issue that also preoccupies influencing young is can you not. hanoi to pay peanuts i'm eunice any of you who've had a broken smartphone have asked yourselves this question is it worth getting it repaired or should i buy a new one i have 2 broken devices here and i'll give you some answers in this video your clear and apple i phone 8 and the samsung galaxy s 8 is once replaced smartphones displays and batteries. since the samsung device to the manufacturers. the i phone to the nearby apple store and asks what these for would cost.

them i'm fine with in the form i was told that they couldn't replace the shattered display without replacing the battery i don't personally think it's worth spending 214 euros on such an old ice so i think i have $240.00 new even though you can get the same model new from a starting price of $529.00 euros apple quotes about 41 percent of the sale price to repair a 3 year old son. father pierce an independent electronics stores chief is that's a viable option for consumers. the one that i think if we add it together for the i phone it runs to $168.00 euros so definitely less than the make your charging but i've also discovered that they don't use any apple parts so i wouldn't do it even though it's cheap it's not finished. $168.00 universe that's not 52 percent of the sales

price is going to be cheaper than the manufacturers but without original parts. what about other phone makers the samsung sent after appears still isn't back almost 2 weeks later and young as i knew her back after getting in touch with samsung does applaud bottom customer support was very friendly and said i'd receive a quote only thing is i haven't received anything and that's after such a long wait and by the touch one shot. but finally youngness does get the word to the device his female received can't hear the cost of her pay is also expensive some $185.00 euros that's about 46 percent of the sales price. but why is it so expensive to fix a smartphone. we'll examine foul believes the smartphone giants have made

a very deliberate choice when it comes to their pricing policy and their manufacturing methods. to give their consent of ours is the start for clipped the devices are often very firmly glued together and can't be open to enjoy some of the quotes for it's and these construction methods often make repairs were very very expensive. and the messages could be better if we bought a new smartphone once you got a noise smartphone 23000000. 1 company has built its business model around the long waits and expensive repairs of the tech giants i fixit sells specialized tools and replacement part. for repairing smartphones it provides the instructions for free. stern fests justice done hoy's it's our experience but devices get repaired more frequently when people don't have to send their phones away for 4 or 6 weeks victims. demise mentioned most

people spend about half their lives on these devices and if it were easier to switch out a battery it would make it more likely that people kept their smartphones for a bit longer and maybe for 4 rather than just 2 years and that's what these are for . there also will shops to teach people how to repair their phones rather than just discard them straight away. the settle that you know it's interesting to repair it yourself even if just for the sense of success when you're manager of it. i must say that when you get kicked out of this the i thought it's the simplest and the best way to save money and i enjoy term. with you doing it yourself rather than just buying another new phone that would look better if the phone maker is also did their bit. that's on mom currently has. a family i know the manufacturers could help a lot of they made it easier to replace the 2 components that most frequently tend

to break or give up the ghost guys. on the one hand the battery that's often glued in. order for the good news and the display which is often difficult to replace. i for sure it's a great service so why use that global market leader issued the statement it's important that the repairs are carried out by specialists who dispose of or recycle the old components and replace them with new original parts that's the only way of ensuring the performance and long life of those devices in the future we had vies against amateurs carrying out repairs. no wonder so few mobile phones get fixed. in the base case scenario the old devices end up in places like this one the recycling firm a ruthless in western germany. under is not and his colleague to be as cool now that there are many other discarded devices out there.

she doesn't see it although it's clear we have 4 times so maybe 25230000 phones. but that's not a lot on if you. have to say given the number of smart phones that are sold each year that only a fraction and up here and walk type is there your uncovered. many old smart phones arrive and not disposed of correctly or they languish unused for years in cupboards in people's homes. as well as plastic they contain valuable metals that could be recycled here. ya mean when you get here we have the shredded cellphones you can see the plastic which will be a replacement sure you can also see copper and of course they're also contain gold

silver platinum and in some cases probably a human 10 zinc where nickel and nick are. the materials a salvaged in a number of steps the recycling process reduces the need for mining in crisis regions but it is very energy intensive and it's not possible to recover 2 of the component parts. also i know will be a telephone but we can recover about 70 percent of what goes into a smartphone. you know their materials or elements which is what we're talking about here that we can't sell which. and you basically are lost at least in terms of the metal value chain and they include the rare earth elements of the settlement you haven't. even here they can only recover 70 percent of these valuable commodities and only a fraction of all smartphones end up in professional recycling facilities in the

1st place the majority disappears into people's couples with it at schools and. for example to akron the capital of ghana this west african country is regarded as a success story with its high economic growth and expanding middle class cellphones are a status symbol here. but. devices that aren't worth repairing in germany often end up in actress tito lang from establishment to me. the idea of giving these used phones a 2nd life sounds good at 1st but not all of them can be repaired. our plan not just the well you got it working on it if you're trying to treat it as a play i run out there someday and the problem is 5050 i can get

a solution to it you know on my nuggets and you think oh it. i mean. what's discarded here ends up in and bill one of the dirtiest places in the world it's residents call it sort of and gomorrah it's home to some of the actors poorest residents they live here in the midst of the trash eking out a living from the enid wasted originates in more affluent countries. and. everything is taken upon people only a few cents from the semiconductors and conflict. i will say this is the last resting place for a lot of technological junk from industrialized nations. but . the circuit boards and conductors are much in demand for these they contain valuable commodities like going to silver and copper. i'm

in the phone business circuit boards storage cards i sell that to people who need something for inside the phones i throw away the things i can't sell like the old batteries i want. there are broken phones everywhere the old batteries pollute the environment because there aren't the facilities to recycle. the people salvaged one of the generates money like aluminum for example it's melted in these very basic facilities. the heat here is insufferable. and the toxic fumes. more than your lunch. hour or even children are present to where you are from mali league dark out of my life i'm with.

them. because. i'm paying the fees. the so-called burners have the most dangerous job in a boat blush they've been charging devices cables and plugs to get the copper inside. the house is damaged by the noxious fumes. only one in and they don't know us and we do the dirty work here. everyone. it's us. if i had the chance of another job i would take it. i wake up in the morning always just lying down with for the time to get out because all my body has been with. this whack off in my body on i get up in the morning and my body is

strong and i do not good for children work alongside the adults here kids like needs to and cousy who are only 10 and 13 years old with a magnet in bare hands they collect small pieces of metal from the toxic remains of the trash. bin and we sell it to help support our mom. and the boys and a bit of additional cash to help their families scrape by but this does she work takes its toll. as professor usually has full bill from the university of ghana can confirm. but children who can affect your level system as the organ system can also offer good brain development in terms of kidney is one of the organs that are. usually very affected most.

but how contaminated is and cold blood. and what danger to the people who live here friends. these soil samples should give an idea that. deliberately findings later show that the soil contains toxic heavy metals asked nick teen and in particular extremely high levels of light. and professor phobia tells us these substances also accumulate in the bodies of the workers. among the e.u. which were. both the organic and inorganic compound. caught me and make oil a certain length and all of this are highly toxic. equal terms they are quite high far far far higher than what is throwing their body to retrieve

. the trend of buying a new smartphone every year has fatal consequences for people and their environment here in ghana. you cheap influences like eunice kanya to showcase the latest devices in a p.b.s. make buying recommendations and so encourage consumption goes a lot. of fun yet i think each one of us who consume something doesn't think as far as what happens to a product when it reaches the end of its life of course what we're doing is in essence promoting consumption of fun but we are at least not the one simply holding up the articles to the can. instead we're the ones who write the consumer goods and tell people which ones are good and which ones aren't basic vision the young as kanya sees himself more as a product tester and as a sales assistant the phone makers the question is whether he's many followers see

it that way to. there at least some manufacturers who are trying to make funds more environmentally friendly the german startups shift is among. its founders and to make their devices last longer be conventional followings. if something does break the devices like to make a. special thing about our shift for launch is there a modular structure the parts that tend to wear out faster start the easiest to replace i can simply open the back of the phone and change the battery in just a few seconds and when i do the screws here i can remove and replace the entire display and we can also access the camera if something goes wrong with it and the special thing is that we use a click to connect critics and the whole thing can be assembled like lego is a mistake unless to be legal. shift also plans to make it possible to order spare

parts years after purchase however because it's possible to unscrew the devices and also because of the normal fines and they also claims expensive. to listen to what sort of course are shift runs are a compromise to us as manufacturers you always have to focus on a particular selling point and for us this is the fact that our forms can be easily repaired. but we also want our devices to perform well there's no point in having a sustainable device if it doesn't do what customers would normally expect. prices range from $400.00 euros per basically. $800.00 euros for the top of the range fine that's not exactly cheap but how does the shift phone rate in comparison with its competitors. you tube influence a year and is can you're tested the ship 6 enough for a week it came out in 2018 but it's still the latest model. a lighter

hey peeps this is the shift 6 am a smartphone developed in germany is it a realistic alternative to more conventional smartphones and if so who might it appeal to you i've tested it verily and share my thoughts with you in this video. your own is tested the camera the device the software performance and of course he evaluated its design. the thing i'm going to go for what i really liked about the device was the battery life and the responsive fingerprint sensor you can also increase its storage capacity what i didn't like was the cameras performance in low light situations and the video quality that also the software isn't up to date and performance is a bit patchy of infinitely. so is the modulus smartphone from germany a realistic alternative. a script for us good you can

buy a better smartphones for that money but they're not sustainable nor are they trying to be in this particular case you're paying about 150 to 200 euros more for a modular design i think it's a realistic alternative for anyone prepared to pay that and just sees a smartphone as an everyday object a tool it wouldn't appeal to nerds like me who are after borderless designs and thin designs and displays designs on displays and hell often for the use of the shiny economists. a much a smart phone is one possible way of making me industry more sustainable but shifts foreign sales figures lag. behind the market ladens and things align to destroy that way for the forseeable future. so the situation in congo and ghana isn't likely to change anytime soon either and people here will continue to pay the price down throw away consumers and. government it's

a lot holds big if you think of smart phones globally they tend to be replaced every 20 months or so that you know how to fix it the most sustainable solution in general for digital devices is to use them for as long as possible before then. long lasting fungus that can be more easily repaired and a higher recycling enclosure would already go some way towards helping reduce the mountains of waste in guyana and making our use of smart phones significantly more sustainable.

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