If you were at certain Apple Stores last weekend you may have seen some people picketing the company and leaving message tags next to display models of Macs, iPhones, and iPads. The picketers are Friends of the Earth activists who are trying to raise awareness of the environmental impact tin mining is having on the islands of Indonesia. Tin is used in every electronics product on the planet, including Macs, iPads, and iPhones. Macworld explains the reasoning behind the protest:
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 acti
