CRITERIA

Association with use

Consumer Smartphone End of Life Proportion of Global Association Association Relative Association
MATERIAL Electronics Industy Composition
Criticality for Phone
Recycling Rates
Potential to Recycle Estimated
Production ASM
Association
with Serious
Association with Association with of Toxic Chemicals
with Significant with High CO2
Functionality from Electronic Waste Depletion Rate with Conflict Radioactive Waste Water/Soil Pollution known to have
Consumption (%) (%) (%) (%) Health Problems Biodiversity Threats Emissions
Significant Impacts

Why should you care about Antimony

the materials in your phone? Arsenic

To understand the sustainability and Barium MD MD

responsibility issues associated with the
Bauxite, alumina,
smartphone supply chain, we collaborated aluminium supply chain
with The Dragonfly Initiative to examine Beryllium
38 of the materials used in mobile phones.
Bismuth
The chart below shows how each material’s
supply chain scores on selected material, Boron
social and environmental aspects. We’re
Chromium
using this information to prioritise which
supply chains to engage first, and determine Cobalt
where our involvement can deliver the
Copper
greatest impact.
Dysprosium
(rare earth)

Gallium

Gold

Indium

Iron

Lithium minerals

Magnesium metal

Manganese ore

Mica MD MD MD MD MD MD

Molybdenum

Neodymium
(rare earth)

Nickel

Niobium MD

Palladium

Platinum

Praseodymium
Key (rare earth)

Rhenium
Low
Rhodium MD

Moderate Ruthenium MD

Silica (-on) MD MD MD MD MD MD
High
Silver

Very High
Strontium MD

Tantalum
MD Missing Data
Tin

Titanium

In partnership with Tungsten

Yttrium MD
(rare earth)

Zinc

Updated on 31 January 2017