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Article #254: What Should I Do With My Old Mobile Phone?

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As the ever growing pressure to save our clubs, schools or small organisations
planet continues to rise, the need to looking to earn a bit of extra money for
recycle our unwanted produce becomes more themselves.
important. Most people now have recycle The process of recycling a phone could
bins at their home and there are lots of not be simpler and works in the following
local points nowadays where unwanted way. The user signs up for FREE to the
items can be deposited for recycling company, with no obligation to
environmentally safe disposal. It's trade a phone. A welcome pack will be
becoming more apparent now that one of sent through the post containing all the
contributors to the high levels of necessary details and packaging to send
landfill comes from electronic goods, one your phone in. Use the website to find
of these being mobile phones. Recycling your phone from the lists provided and
mobile phones is a growing industry due determine its trade in value. If you wish
to the huge numbers of unused or unwanted to trade or donate a phone, simply follow
phones gathering dust in drawers and the instructions and post the phone in
cupboards. In the UK, the average mobile the FREEPOST packaging provided. Once the
phone user changes their phone every company has received your phone, they
18months, which means that more than 18 will check it over and would then contact
million phones are purchased each year. you and inform you that payment will be
The amount of these which get recycled is made to you. Every person that signs up
reported to be less than 15%, meaning the will have online access to check the
unwanted 'mobile phone mountain' is process status of their mobile. Having an
growing everyday. This vast amount of account means you can simply log back in
waste has led to the number of unused next time you have another phone to trade
phones in the UK to 90million phones at and repeat the process. It's easy and
an estimated value of more than above all it's totally free of charge.
£1Billion What happens to my phone? The phones are
Why should I recycle my mobile? The assessed by the company, which will then
answer is quite simple really. Firstly, decide what to do with each individual
recycling an old mobile will reduce phone. Some will be reused in developing
landfill enormously. Some batteries in countries, some will be broken down into
mobile phones contain precious metals spares and others will be recycled for
such as cadmium and mercury amongst future products.
others, which if sent to landfill can This is a win situation for all involved
cause soil contamination. The leakage in the process. The user gets paid for
from one battery would be enough to something they don't want and the levels
contaminate 600,000 litres of water. of waste and pollution are reduced due to
Secondly, anyone that wants to recycle the recycling process.
their mobile phone has the option to take Sign up today for free, earn cash and
cash or voucher payment for their phone. reduce pollution.
This is great news for individuals,






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