POILLEY, France: One company in northern France is doing its profitable best to give an environmental makeover to smartphones, whose circuitry, batteries and plastics have become a polluting blight over the past decade.
With their rapid life cycles and – for the cheaper brands – falling prices, many mobiles have become disposable items for consumers keen to move on to the latest model.
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