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Sick of buying a new phone every two years? Fairphones last for years and don’t exploit miners

Mobile phones are set to outnumber human beings two to one in the next couple of years, reaching a “stunning” 18 billion by 2025.

Of the roughly 1.5 billion phones sold each year, only 20 per cent are recycled.

Most of us are aware of this growing mountain of e-waste and its inverse: the mines where human rights are buried in pursuit of the minerals we need for our smartphones.

But with phones at the centre of our lives, in our hands most of the day, it’s convenient to ignore the harm they do. The ills of the mobile phone industry can feel like just another way that our everyday consumption causes harm from afar - like our appetite for avocados, or penchant for fast fashion.

But there is another way. Even in this globalised system there is space to be an ethical consumer, and there’s one phone that is leagues ahead by environmental and social metrics: the Fairphone.

Launched by a Dutch social enterprise in 2012, the phone’s unique selling point is that its parts are accessible - and therefore fixable - by screwdriver.

Fairphone has also taken great care to source all its material parts as consciously as possible.

With EU Green Week shedding a light on the circular economy, we sat down with Fairphone’s Impact Innovation director Monique Lempers to get an inside perspective on the industry.

“Unfortunately the average time that a user currently uses their phone for is only between two and three years,” says Lempers.

Given that the biggest chunk of CO2 emissions from a phone are released at the production stage - around 75 per cent - this fleeting ownership has an “immense impact” she says.

Fairphone is striving to stretch the lifetime of a phone over five years, so double the average lifespan currently.

It is doing this by making its

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