Mining For Smartphones: The Tin Mines of Bangka Island

The first episode of a new three part documentary series produced by Friends of the Earth showing the environmental impact of tin mining on Bangka Island.

Friends of the Earth are calling on major international mobile phone manufacturers to take responsibility for the local and wider environmental and social impacts of the materials used in their products. We want them to make their products better and we need your help to make it happen.
The second episode of a new three part documentary series produced by Friends of the Earth, highlighting the social and environmental effects of sea bed tin mining on the Island of Bangka, Indonesia.

The third and final episode of a new documentary series produced by Friends of the Earth, highlighting the effects of tin mining on the local population of Bangka Island in Indonesia.