British university encourages others to curb use of conflict minerals

By Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The first British university to adopt a policy aimed at cutting the use of conflict minerals in the products it buys, said on Tuesday it hopes to form a network of like-minded universities that together would combat the issue in their supply chains. With some 50,000 staff and students and an annual turnover of 850 million pounds, the University of Edinburgh is a major buyer of computers and other electronic goods. Campaigners have long raised concerns that such goods use minerals like tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold, which have in some cases been used to prolong conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere. Read More http://ift.tt/1Syj0h7

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