cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasywww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down11
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minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-216 days agonot to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare
minus-squareBlindFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoToxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoenvironmental effects Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty “At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”
not to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare
Toxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?
environmental effects
Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty