The electronics graveyard above our heads

Supply Chain
Cartography

Map the physical reality of global electronics supply chains. From cobalt mines in the DRC to recycling plants in Belgium — see where materials flow, where products are made, and where eWaste ends up.

Trace a Material Explore Flows
The Invisible Supply Chain

Your electronics supply chain
spans 60+ countries. Can you see it?

Why This Matters

A single smartphone touches 60+ countries. Cobalt from the DRC, lithium from Chile, rare earths from China, assembly in Vietnam, sold worldwide, dumped in Ghana. 36,500+ tracked objects orbit Earth — satellites built from the same supply chains, with the same Scope 3 blind spots. You can’t manage what you can’t see.

What We Map

Four lenses on global material flows. Material tracing from mine to manufacturer. Product journey mapping across continents. eWaste flow analysis — formal recycling vs informal sector vs landfill. Country intelligence profiles for 60+ nations in the electronics supply chain.

Who We Help

Supply chain managers needing geographic risk visibility. Satellite operators planning constellation end-of-life. Due diligence teams tracking conflict minerals. Compliance officers mapping EPR obligations across jurisdictions. Researchers studying global material flows.

What You Get

Interactive supply chain maps showing where materials actually flow. Geographic concentration risk assessments. Country-level profiles with mining, refining, manufacturing, and disposal data. Try our material tracing tool to follow any mineral from extraction to end-of-life.

Material Origins

6 critical minerals have >60% single-country concentration. We map extraction sites, refining routes, and geopolitical risks for every material in the electronics supply chain.

Manufacturing Routes

Electronics supply chains are 8+ tiers deep. We trace the full path — from mining to component manufacture to assembly to your warehouse — across every continent.

End-of-Life Flows

62M tonnes of eWaste generated annually. Only 17.4% formally recycled. We track where the rest goes — informal processing, transboundary shipments, landfill.

"Your supply chain is a graph, not a spreadsheet."

What We Map

Four lenses on
global material flows

Material Tracing

Select a critical mineral — cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, rare earths, silicon — and trace its journey from mine to manufacturer. See which countries extract, refine, and consume each material, and where bottlenecks and geopolitical risks concentrate.

Product Journey Mapping

Follow a product from raw materials to your desk. A smartphone touches 60+ countries. A laptop crosses 6 continents. We map the full path — extraction, refining, component manufacture, assembly, distribution, use, and end-of-life.

eWaste Flow Analysis

Track where the world's 62 million tonnes of annual eWaste actually goes. Formal recycling, informal processing, transboundary shipments, and landfill. Country-level data on collection rates, treatment capacity, and illegal dumping routes.

Country Intelligence

Deep profiles for 60+ countries in the electronics supply chain. What each nation mines, refines, manufactures, imports, exports, and disposes of. Regulatory environment, labour standards, and environmental enforcement data.

The Numbers

See the scale of
global material flows

Electronics supply chains are the most geographically dispersed of any industry. A single smartphone contains materials from every inhabited continent, processed in dozens of countries, assembled in a handful, and discarded in millions of locations.

  • 62M tonnes — global eWaste generated annually (2024)
  • $57B — estimated value of recoverable materials in eWaste
  • 17.4% — global eWaste formally collected and recycled
  • 6 — critical minerals with >60% single-country concentration
  • 60+ — countries touched by a single smartphone supply chain
Critical Minerals

The minerals that make
electronics possible

Cobalt

Essential for lithium-ion batteries. 74% of global supply mined in the DRC. Refined primarily in China. Used in every smartphone, laptop, and EV battery.

DRC → China → Global

Lithium

The backbone of rechargeable batteries. Australia leads mining, Chile dominates brine extraction. Processing concentrated in China. Demand growing 25% annually.

AU/CL → China → Global

Rare Earths

17 elements critical for magnets, displays, and semiconductors. China controls 60% of mining and 90% of processing. No viable substitutes for most applications.

China → Global

Copper

Wiring, circuit boards, heat sinks — 440g in every laptop. Chile produces 27% of global supply. Recycling rates are high (70%) but demand is outpacing recovery.

Chile/Peru → China → Global

Tin

Solder on every circuit board. Indonesia and China produce 60% of global supply. Artisanal mining in Bangka-Belitung islands linked to deforestation and marine damage.

ID/CN → Global

Silicon

The foundation of every semiconductor. Abundant as sand, but purification to electronic-grade requires enormous energy. China produces 70% of metallurgical-grade silicon.

China/Norway → Global
Interactive Demo

Ask about any supply chain flow

Describe a material, product, or supply chain route. Our AI provides geographic analysis — origin countries, processing hubs, transport corridors, and risk concentrations.

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Woman- and minority-owned social enterprise. 11 entities across 4 continents. Mapping global electronics supply chains from extraction to end-of-life. Built on Cloudflare’s global edge network.