Rare Earthenware - How Much Toxic Waste Was Produced to Make Your Electronic Devices?

Retracing rare earth elements, which are widely used in high end electronics and green technologies, to their origins. The film, developed with photographer Toby Smith, documents their voyage from container ships and ports, wholesalers and factories, back to the banks of a barely-liquid radioactive lake in Inner Mongolia... read more
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