Perpetual Dead Battery
The Design School at Arizona State University hosts an annual exhibition to display the senior graphic design students final projects. Each student project focuses on a different social issue. My project focuses on the unethical mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Every chargeable device you own is powered with cobalt. It’s the component in lithium-ion batteries that keeps them stable and long lasting. About seventy percent of the world’s cobalt is mined from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo’s mining system is horribly corrupt and dangerous, their cobalt is tainted with abuse, slavery, child labor, human trafficking, hazardous working conditions, pathetic wages, injury, death, and incalculable environmental harm.
