| Hold It! Wait! Don't throw that old, unwanted | | | | asthma or even cause sufferers to die from it |
| mobile phone away! You know, there is actually a | | | | because of its death-dealing fumes pervading the |
| much better, environmental-friendly way to | | | | air as well as preventing cancer. |
| discard your mobile phone, and you can make | | | | Today, more and more people all the world are |
| money doing it. | | | | "going green"; actually it's becoming the cool and |
| You mean I can make money for not throwing | | | | stylish thing to do. Just think: You can save the |
| my phone in with the rest of the rubbish? That's | | | | world! Everyone from celebrities to everyday |
| right, you may be able to make money by | | | | people are becoming more |
| properly discarding or selling your phone to | | | | environmental-conscious as never before. |
| companies willing to buy them. But in order for | | | | You said I could properly discard or sell my mobile |
| you to see the value of preserving the | | | | phone. But where? How? There are various ways |
| environment, you need to understand why it can | | | | you can discard your old mobile phone without |
| actually be dangerous to improperly discard your | | | | endangering the environment as well as |
| mobile phones. | | | | economising your own wallet or pocketbook. |
| Mobile phones are made with certain | | | | Legitimate Ways to Discard your Used or |
| bio-degradable products that contain high levels of | | | | Unwanted mobile phones: |
| toxins that produces carcinogens, or | | | | Recycle your unwanted or old phones by |
| cancer-producing agents. These chemicals of | | | | discarding them at special drop-off bins that are |
| elements have often been poured into landfills, | | | | now being presented at many retail stores and |
| which produce noxious or strong fumes that | | | | for charity's, although you do not get cash for |
| spread to the air, endangering both man and | | | | these, just the feel good factor of helping others. |
| beast. | | | | In fact, there are many recycling companies that |
| One can just imagine someone coming into an | | | | pay out cash for mobiles, just check on our site! |
| abandoned area perhaps late at night when most | | | | You can even sell your old cell phone(s) on online |
| are asleep and leaving bins or cartons of noxious | | | | companies such as eBay, for instance. Phone |
| chemicals in their community where people have | | | | recycling is the wave of the future-and present. |
| to breathe in its poisonous, dangerous fumes. | | | | You can donate your old cell phone(s) to various |
| Now just imagine someone doing that with a box | | | | countries and organisation such as the military, |
| or several boxes filled with used mobile phones. | | | | under-developed nations and nations suffering |
| It's really the same thing. It can be tantamount to | | | | natural disasters, such as the recent earthquake in |
| committing mass murder, since numerous lives | | | | Haiti. One phone company donated thousands of |
| are involved, especially those who suffer from | | | | used mobile phones to that impoverished land. |
| respiratory ailments. | | | | Or better yet, you can give it to your loved ones, |
| Oh! I never realised how dangerous it can be to | | | | a spouse, a close family member or a close |
| throw my mobile phone in the bin. But what can I | | | | friend. |
| do? Go green! What's "going green"? | | | | Only by doing these things can we can all |
| It means protecting the environment, the air you | | | | reasonably contribute to making the world a safe |
| and others have to breathe, it means ridding the | | | | environment for all of us to live in, for "going |
| air of poisonous toxins which can aggravate | | | | green: is the stylish, cool thing to do. |