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Is Apple Involved in Heavy-Metal Pollution in China?

07/01/2010
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    When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/is-apple-involved-in-heavy-metal-pollution-in-china/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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    When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/is-apple-involved-in-heavy-metal-pollution-in-china/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Shenzhen-apple-pollutino
    When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/is-apple-involved-in-heavy-metal-pollution-in-china/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • china-pollution-map
    When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/is-apple-involved-in-heavy-metal-pollution-in-china/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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    When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/is-apple-involved-in-heavy-metal-pollution-in-china/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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When you buy the iPhone 4, you're buying not just from Apple -- but from the Taiwanese company Foxconn, who manufactures the phones (and pods and pads) at their mainland China factories. The company's abusive labor practices have been reported of late, and now Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether it also violates China's lax environmental laws....

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