As if EMFs in mobile phones weren’t bad enough, a new study ranks mobile phones for toxic chemicals.
“Every phone sampled in this study contained at least one of following hazardous chemicals: lead, bromine, chlorine, mercury and cadmium. These hazardous substances can pollute throughout a product’s life cycle, including when the minerals are extracted; when they are processed; during phone manufacturing; and at the end of the phone’s useful life. Emissions during disposal and recycling of phones as electronic waste, or “e-waste,” are particularly problematic. The mining of some tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold used in mobile phones has been linked to conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
While these toxic chemicals don’t appear to leach while we are using them, they do pollute the environment, where we are then exposed to them.
Do we really need cell phones?
