Recycling Your Old Mobile

Posted by Deepak Shrivastava
March 30, 2010

How often do you buy a new mobile phone, and have you considered what all of these purchases are doing to the environment? In fact, how many mobile phones do you possess at this moment? Just the one, two, three? Or, like my brother-in-law, quite a few depending on who is trying to get in touch with him?36

All of these new mobile phones are adding to a huge environmental problem. Over time, as we dispose of the old handsets into the rubbish heap we are creating an enormous mobile phone mountain. One that is filled with essential elements that could be reused, plus, in certain cases, possibly potentially hazardous metals in the form of mercury in the batteries.

This is an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Just thank goodness the batteries are dead and they are not all going to start ringing at once!

Joking aside, it is very important that once we have replaced a mobile, instead of just throwing the old handset out with the weekly rubbish we should instead look into ways that we can recycle phones as a long term alternative.

There are loads of websites set up just for this purpose, unlike any other electronic product that I am aware of. This is no doubt because there are so many old handsets being replaced, their value to recyclers and the fact that they can be easily returned.

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