Every two years or less, the average Australian unwraps a new mobile phone from its substantial fancy packaging – all wide-eyed at the funky new buttons and shiny screen.None, though, will have bought their phones for the toxic materials inside or the greenhouse gases their phone – and the 8 million others brought into the country last year – will help to create as it is built, shipped and sold.
But manufacturers, forced by legislation in other parts of the world and consumer demand, are now racing to create the first genuinely "green" mobile phone. Read the rest of this article
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