It is believed that most users change or go for a new mobile phone handset at least every two years
. Though with each passing day, with mobile communication technology progressing at the speed of lightening, the gap is only going come down only. Already, there are quite a few mobile phone users who change their handsets for a new one every six months or so. All in all, it is pretty safe to presume that most mobile phone handset users go for a new handset every year ro so. On an average that is.
Now, the question to be asked is that What happens to the old and not any more in use mobile phone handset. You would in all probability dumped into the nearest waste basket or even left it in your cupboard only to be forgotten totally. All mobile phone handsets contain in them to a greater or lesser degree certain amounts of lithium and a few other equally harmful chemicals or other materials. And these are not easily bio degradable. This implies that the lithium and the othe hazardous material will dissolve into the soil and cause irreparable damage to the soil surface. And in turn, our environment and ecology and thereby resulting in the fast deteriorating climatic change scenario.
The ill effects of climage change is being alread witnesses all over the world. The one very sensible way out of this mess is to submit out used and considered obselee mobile phone handsets to any of the few mobile phone recycling companies whose business it is to recycle phones for cash.
Recycling mobile phones is a techical and scientific process that these firms specialise in. They will remove the harmful part such as lithium and ony retain the safer ones and give them back for better use in some other industry. And what is more. The recycling of mobile phones also brings some basic compensation for the mobile phone handset owner here.