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In this PC World/IDG News Service column, Ken Banks reflects on global mobile phone sales passing three billion and examines the environmental cost of that growth, from the raw materials — including the conflict mineral coltan, mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo — needed to manufacture handsets, to the hundreds of thousands of phones discarded daily in the United States alone, and the recycling schemes emerging to address it.
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Ken Banks