How sustainable is your smartphone? - interactive

Smartphones are owned by one in five people and have changed how many of the world's most important industries work – from journalism to farming. But their production carries a cost; using more than 40 elements that are mined with untold environmental and social effects on every inhabited continent on earth.

Use the interactive below to take a detailed look at positive and negative impacts your smartphone has made on people and planet

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