Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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03/08/2017 | (Sony) | Report accuses electronics companies for: holding a large voting bloc on most U.S. green standards groups; consistently opposing repair and reuse designs for their products; instead approve criteria they can easily achieve and earn green certificates. | United States | Repair.org, Motherboard.VICE | Consumer Deception, Lobbying, Negligence, Pollution | |
13/06/2008 | (Sony) | Study shows mobile phone companies use cobalt from DR Congo, running the risk of supporting illegal export and unfair mining practices, which often involves severe human rights abuses. | DR Congo | DanWatch | Child Labor, Forced Labor, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
23/05/2005 | (Sony) | Greenpeace accuses major electronics companies for using unrecyclable and toxic materials in their products causing pollution and health hazards in poor Asian countries where electronics are discarded. | India and China | Greenpeace, (2) | Negligence, Pollution |