| Recycle Mobile Phones for Cash | | | | battery. With Londoners buying more than 1.3 |
| You may have seen statistics on how many | | | | million new mobiles a year that's 820 Billion litres |
| mobile phones are thrown away every year? And | | | | of water that could be polluted if old mobile |
| how many new ones are purchased every day? | | | | phones are not recycled properly. And there's a |
| Well here are some interesting facts and statistics | | | | drought on. |
| why you should recycle mobile phones. | | | | |
| Very important. Never ever throw a mobile | | | | Striving for a better future |
| phone, cell phone or any other type of electrical | | | | If mobile phones are correctly recycled it can help |
| gadget into the trash. You should always recycle | | | | by decreasing the minerals such as Coltan, Lead, |
| mobile phones and electrical gadgets. If only you | | | | Copper, Gold etc (and others) from being mined |
| knew why it was so important. | | | | for in in third world countries like the Amazon rain |
| The whole world is on a budget. Yet we have a | | | | forests, the Congo and Africa where it is |
| demand for technology such as in the | | | | destroying the natural habitats for the precious |
| tellecomunnications industry. But where do you | | | | animals and other life that exist there. |
| think all the materials needed come from? Do you | | | | Because of the high demand for these types of |
| think we just have an endless supply of | | | | metals, people who live in these countries are |
| resources? Have we taken it all for granted that | | | | being exploited. Such as young children who are |
| much and become that complacent? Well that is | | | | forced to work searching for and stripping mobile |
| the world today. | | | | phones of the metals. You may have read press |
| There has to be a realisation. And we need to | | | | reports how these children end up with high levels |
| make a change | | | | of chemicals inside their bodies and contract |
| They say on average every home in the US and | | | | diseases such as asthma and cancer. |
| UK have at least 2.9 unused mobile phones. (That | | | | That is why we need to make a change! We |
| means it's more likely to be 3 than 2) It is | | | | need to do more to recycle our mobile phones |
| estimated there to be around 80 million unused | | | | and keep the demand for the metals down. We |
| mobile phones in the UK alone just lying around. | | | | all need to work together if we our to have a |
| (130 million in the US) Just lying around gathering | | | | better, brighter future. If we want to use mobile |
| dust, never to be used again. Sadly most of | | | | phones anyway. |
| these end up so old and never used they simply | | | | How to recycle mobile phones |
| get thrown away. As is the case with mobile | | | | Like most things these days you can recycle |
| phones when new ones come out. Whats sadder | | | | mobile phones. Mobile phone recycling has been |
| is it's estimated that only 10% of them are | | | | doing well for the past few years in America and |
| actually recycled! | | | | has taken off well in the UK for the past couple |
| Mobile phones are precious you know | | | | of years now also. There are companies formed |
| Mobile phones contain precious metals such as | | | | that have the ability to safely recycle mobile |
| Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Titanium and other | | | | phones. They will even pay you to do so! |
| fine metals that can be smelted down and used | | | | Mobile phone recycling companies normally have |
| again in brand new phones. If you extracted all | | | | website you can go on to register with and send |
| the gold from 80 million mobile phones and got 0.2 | | | | them in your phone. They will normally send you |
| gms out of each. You'd end up with 16000000 | | | | payment for the phone in a matter of days. It's |
| gms. Which is 16 metric tons! That comes to a lot | | | | all very genuine and legit and it's certainly a good |
| of gold and money thrown away and wasted. | | | | thing. Any kind of recycling is but with what we |
| Mobile phones also contain toxic materials such as | | | | know about mobile phones and what goes on to |
| Cadmium, Lead, Coltan, Beryllium and Brominated | | | | make them this definitely is. |
| flame retardants used in batteries electrical | | | | Why they pay you & what happens now |
| capacitors in mobile phones. These toxic materials | | | | The reason they pay you for your old or unused |
| do not break down and biodegrade in the ground | | | | mobile phone is because of the value the phone |
| in landfill sites. They sit there in the ground for | | | | holds to them. As you know every phone has |
| decades releasing harmful poisonous chemicals | | | | precious metals inside which can be extracted and |
| that can get into and pollute the water supply. | | | | smelted down. These metals are then sold back |
| They say in London over 80 billion olympic sizes | | | | to mobile phone companies who reuse them in |
| swimming pools worth of water could be polluted | | | | the making of brand new mobile phones and |
| by discarded mobile phone batteries every year! | | | | other electrical gadgets. |
| Up to 600 thousand litres of water can be | | | | So safely sell and recycle your old mobile phones |
| polluted by one single cadmium mobile phone | | | | online for cash and never throw them away. |