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Mobile phones – the hidden charges

Next time somebody criticises you for doing something ecologically evil such as owning a car or using a log-burner, ask them to glance at the phone in their hand – and consider how much energy, water and raw materials it is using up.

Not so much the phone itself, although there are plenty of rare elements in it, but the various services it is connected

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