332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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What's in Between?
CNN's John Sutter has written a book about the supply chain of cobalt. He says it starts with children digging through toxic sludge to gather cobalt. They're then sold to intermediaries, traders and buying houses that serve as laundering mechanism for child labor. The cobalt is refined into commercial grade form before being sold to battery manufacturers who use it in cell phones or e-scooter batteries.
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