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THE ONLY WAY IS ETHICS

For anyone who grew up watching Captain Planet, we didn’t take the environment too seriously back then – otherwise a cartoon superhero with an aqua-green mullet wouldn’t have been spreading the message. Now we know the harm caused by plastics, but what about gadgets? We’ve picked out the best tech for performance and the planet and, at the risk of the connected pot calling the Wi-Fi kettle black, unearthed the truth about e-waste.

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