Fair Labor Alliance

Apple pie
April 18, 2012
For those concerned with the burden on China’s environment from it being the 21st Century’s “workshop of the world”, Apple’s agreeing to the presence of external monitors during the auditing of pollution controls at a Chinese supplier’s factory comes as a welcome development. The weekend edition of the Financial Times reported that the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) has been invited to attend the inspection of a printed circuit board plant in the next few weeks.