Most people in the UK, an especially London, now own a mobile phone, and there are several ways in which they can be recycled or re-used.
- Donate old mobile phones to friends or family.
- Many manufacturers take back old mobile phones for recycling.
- Some companies have set up mobile phone recycling schemes.
The Carbon Neutral company will recycle your mobile phone if you send it to:
Greener Solutions (Future Forests Offer), Freepost LONI7592, PO Box 32343
London
SW17 9ZZ
See www.carbonneutral.com for further details.
The company ‘Turn On Your Mobile’ also have a recycling scheme where you can exchange your mobile phones for cash. See www.recyclemymobile.co.uk for full details.
Another site offering a phone recycling service where you can make money on your old phone is envirofone.com.
The Recycling Appeal collects mobile phones as well as PDAs and printer cartridges for reuse and recycling. They raise funds for charity whilst helping the environment at the same time. The Recycling Appeal has generated over £2 million for partner organisations since 1999.
So there’s no excuse for your old phone ending up in landfill!
2 users commented in " Recycling your mobile phone… "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackEnvirofone Ltd are able to offer good deals on old phones because of the amount of valuable metal they can recycle. A company that recycles moblies in Japan claims they can get 150g of gold from each ton of old mobiles. The only problem is that if your old phone is lost in the post envirofone. won’t pay out. Apart from that it’s a really good idea.
Yea, this is a problem most of the mobile phone users facing. To tackle this problem now a days lot of site deals with recycling mobile phones . As I have recycled my old unwanted mobile phone for charity donation with fonebank, which provides a unique solution and depth information on recycling mobile phones.