Fionnáin quoted Plants by Numbers by Jane Prophet
This open access book takes a queer, feminist, and decolonial technoscience approach to the ecologies …
The kinds of online public campaigns that Terranova and Sundaram recommend were indeed powerfully applied to this issue, and as a result, the 2010 Dodd-Frank act (section 1502) required companies to determine through supply-chain due diligence whether or not their products contain conflict minerals from DRC or neighboring countries. But the tracing system is easily faked and has now been turned into a “mineral laundering scheme”
— Plants by Numbers by Jane Prophet, Helen V. Pritchard (Page 144)
A dark term, 'mineral laundering'. Quote from the chapter 'Decolonization, Computation, Propagation: Phyto-Human Alliances in the Pathways Towards Generative Justice' by Ron Eglash, Audrey Bennett, Lionel Robert Jr., Kwame Porter Robinson, Matthew Garvin, and Mark Guzdia