| Mobile phones are made of toxic metals like | | | | productive use. |
| Cadmium, lead, nickel, mercury, beryllium, | | | | If you wish to upgrade your phone, then have |
| manganese, lithium, zinc, arsenic, and copper which | | | | you ever thought who might get use out of your |
| can be dangerous to the environment, if not | | | | existing phone. If you are interested in a recycling |
| properly disposed off. Every year millions of | | | | plan, ask the company that you are purchasing |
| mobile phones are sold in the UK. And lots of | | | | from if they have a mobile phone recycling plan. |
| them are disposed without recycling them. But do | | | | There are many online websites that buy old |
| you know that recycling your old mobile phone is | | | | mobile phones for recycling. If you have a |
| for environment. There are many carriers and | | | | damaged phone, then check with the company as |
| nonprofit organizations that make it easy for you | | | | mobile phone recycling often does not include |
| to donate your unwanted handset and | | | | damaged or broken phones. |
| accessories, and they will take care of the rest. | | | | By recycling things like mobile phones, computers, |
| Millions of your old mobile phones may be just | | | | glass bottles, computers, etc. we add up to a |
| kept unused just because people are not using | | | | cleaner environment. If you are having spare |
| mobile phone recycling and donation programs | | | | mobile handsets, pagers or PDAs, you can recycle |
| available. Mobile phones that cannot be reused are | | | | them in an environmentally and socially responsible |
| used for repairing phones which are not working. | | | | manner. |
| Older mobile phones that are extremely damaged | | | | Just a little web research and you can find a |
| are sent to material recycling, where materials | | | | convenient and no cost mobile phone recycling |
| can be recovered and then put back into | | | | solution. |