Mobile Phone Recycling a Great Way to do your Bit for the Environment
Mobile Phone Recycling a Great Way to do your Bit for the Environment
If an old mobile phone is thrown in the bin it will be taken to landfill. Once at landfill it will leach many harmful and toxic chemicals into the soil around it which can kill natural inhabitants and even end up in humans water supplies. Not only that mobile phones take many years to break down fully so will sit in landfill sites for many hundreds of years to come.
In order to help the environment there are now many mobile recycling companies available that will take old phones off your hands and either reuse or recycle them correctly. The first option people have when it comes to mobile recycling is too do a quick search online. Online mobile recycling companies allow users to sell their old phones in return for cash or gift vouchers for many different high street stores. After a quick search for the model a price will be quoted and the old handset can be sent in using a prepaid envelope, once received the old mobile will be tested and payment sent within a short amount of days.
Once they have your old mobile phone many mobile recycling websites will either refurbish them and sell them on in the UK or send them onto developing countries where people will use mobile phones as their only means of communication. If the old mobile phones they receive are beyond repair then they will be broken down and the parts used to make new phones and any other parts recycled correctly.
Other mobile recycling options include taking the old handset to a charity who will donate it too good causes or too a local council will dispose of it correctly. Both these options will help the environment but will not allow the consumer to be rewarded for their old electronic item.
Whichever recycling option you decide on using you will know that you are doing your bit to help the environment and not adding to the mountains of electronic waste that is ending up at Britain's landfill sites.