little hands are used to dig that up well 2 thirds of the wide comes from mines in the democratic republic of congo india papua new guinea the philippines and other countries make up the rest of most of it and most companies source the mail from the sea most of it is produced in industrial mines sunday labor and human rights standards but 10 to 20 percent does come from small often illicit mines mazes of poles and cardozo narrow usually small children can get for the cobalt is mainly shipped to china the batteries are produced there and they end up in the devices you use well. it is from the economic and ecumenical institute zoot bins what can we as uses and consumers actually do about this problem what we can do as consumers is to reduce our consume of electronic devices to use our smart phones longer and to us companies what they are doing about child labor about the human rights risks in their supply chains when it comes to the companies how can a german car maker if we take an electric car for example the remote relies on batteries which rely on this. work out if chinese battery suppliers are following the rule. first. issue of addr