For years, several environmental protection agencies have been accusing Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), that he does not take enough measures to protect the planet, and the attacks against those in Cupertino go from online/media directly to Apple Stores. This weekend several members of the organization called Friends of the Earth they picketed several Apple stores in the US, trying to bring to the attention of the whole world the negative effects that the stage mines in Indonesia have on the environment, the material being used by Apple's partners to manufacture some components of the company's products.
Friends of the Earth claims that due to the "Dangerous and unregulated" tin mining on Bangka, in 2011 an "average of one miner a week died in an accident". The activists also claim coral and sea life is threatened due to silt from tin mining, which they claim is "killing coral reefs and seagrass eaten by turtles, driving away fish and ruining fishermen's livelihoods". In addition, soil has become acidic after the destruction of forests for tin mining, making conditions difficult for farmers.
A representative of the Friends of the Earth organization sent a letter to Tim Cook bringing to his attention the problems of tin mines in Indonesia, but this material is used in almost all electronic products sold on the market. Regardless of what methods NGOs will use to attack Apple based on the use of certain materials or practices to manufacture or sell iDevices, such actions have very little chance of success.
