Long before we made a single phone, Fairphone was working to better understand and improve mineral supply chains. Many years and three phones later, we’re still focusing on our mission of driving important materials projects and pioneering research that has a positive impact on how materials are sourced, used and reused – improving both environmental factors and the lives of those working with these materials. One of our focus materials for improvements is tin. In partnering up with the sustainability and recycling experts from Anthesis and Alpha Assembly, we hope to be able to shed some light into the difficult business of recycling. For Fairtalks #5 (our last episode in social isolation), we sat down with Richard Peagam from Anthesis and Steef Nuijens from Alpha Assembly to discuss our reasearch into the end of the tin lifecycle. For more on our efforts to source the materials in our phones as fairly as possible, visit www.fairphone.com/story