Cobalt mining for phones: How you could be holding a product of child labour

The Chinese mining company Hauyou has refused to apologise after Sky News found that it was sourcing cobalt mined by children as young as four. We've also discovered that Apple has told Huayou to suspend all sourcing from mines until they can be checked to be free of child labour. Here's our Technology correspondent Tom Cheshire.

[gwenwalravens]

The worst thing here is that Apple could easily provide protection and enough food/money to help these people. Those things would be very cheap. But no, they prefer to save even a single cent on their 1000$ iphones. More than 1 trillion on the bank... They sold 41 million iphones in 2019. 10 cent per iphone would give these people a budget of 4 million dollars annually.

[armwrestlingfan]

Look at the views these type of videos get. Makes perfect sense.

[zpkjclg]

And nothing will be done about it, because we are all immoral hypocrites

[AbiDibObI]

they are not sorry and they will never stop. smh.

[EbilEnemyofBurgerTown]

Man I honestly feel bad for owning an iPhone. :(

[LSMG]

Imagine that this mine shows THE BEST conditions possible of all element mines.

[fastlane]

The suppliers won’t do much to really improve these mines and it will cut profits. They’ll only do enough so the world has enough to feel a little better about themselves and turn a blind eye

[nkosinathimyende]

europe needs to leave africa alone, we donot need aid we should be giving aid these first world economies depend on africa colonialism is still happening in africa

[adrianaadnan]

The problems with globalization suply chains is breakdown of processes

[clarkblomquist]

What can we do to stop thus abuse - maybe protest at phone stores?

[barney]

But I'm watching this with my phone ;-;

[tamaracotegipe]

Unglaublich! So ungerecht! Kinder müssen so leider während wir süchtig sind!

[guilhermebruno]

Todas as mãos estão sujas, inclusive as nossas...

[JovanHarris-re]

We are all guilty. We are all complicit. I hate that. 😞

[Afrocanuk]

For some reason the DRC don't qualify for excavating machinery. We won't know what's really happening in the Congo until we hear directly from them.

[liitleman]

Woww this looks like hell, this is devil's work, the earth is billions of years old all the beauty this world had and humans come along and just less then 200 years we have ripped it apart and sucked it dry. We are the worst animal this beautiful planet has encountered and we don't deserve it, because we are fueled on greed. we will destroy it no doubt.

[gobeklipepe]

Had to follow the videos trail to find this video.

[upstatefinest]

Unbelievable 😢 ppl are so greed and evil....this is wicked!!!!

[annalizavergara]

Have to use this phone longerrr,
Please love your laborer at least. Protect

[annetdegraaf]

That's why I never bought a mobile phone or laptop