This brief factsheet provides an overview of the supply chains of heated tobacco products. It exemplifies how the environment is degraded in mineral mining and how human rights are violated in the process. The highlighted example is the mining of copper in Peru, which is needed to produce the batteries. A graphic shows the structure of heated tobacco products and the raw materials they contain.

Authors: Sonja von Eichborn, Michael Reckordt
Editors: Unfairtobacco, PowerShift
Published: December 2022

Hardly any other raw material has such a high potential for environmental hazards as copper.

Factsheet Heated Tobacco Products: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights © Factsheet-Heated-tobacco-products_front by Unfairtobacco / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

English Download Free
German Download Free

0,00 €

No VAT required for small enterprises according to German law, §19(1) UStG. plus shipping costs

View more resources

Factsheet Heated Tobacco Products: Supply Chains | Environment | Human Rights

Download

Order