subject: Mobile Phone Recycling: A required practice [print this page] Mobile Phone Recycling: A required practice
Every now and then a new mobile phone is launched. With the increase in the number of players manufacturing mobile phones the competition has got fierce. In this tough competition the manufacturers launch new mobile phones and offer various lucrative deals to attract new as well as to upgrade the existing customers.
Under an estimate it is known that there are more than 57 million mobile phone subscribers in UK only and people upgrade their mobiles phone in an average period of 18 months. Around 23 million mobile phones are upgraded every eighteen months only in UK. Among these only twenty percent mobile phones are re used or recycled the rest are placed in cupboards with care to attract dust. The number of phones which are not recycled is so big that if all these non recycled and never reused mobile phones can be pilled up, that would weigh seven times more than the London Eye.
There are lot many ways in which a mobile phone can be recycled or reused. When a person upgrades his/her mobile phone, it brings with it an empty envelop in which he/she can return the older handset so that it can be either recycled or reused.
There are more ways to recycle mobile phones. One can donate the older mobile phone to a charity either through post or directly. Its not that mobile phone recycling wont pay anything. If the user wants some money there are various online portals and and stores where the prices paid for the older mobile can be compared and the user can choose the best deal.
Its better to go for online portals as they do not require all the accessories that one receives with the handset. The only require the handset and the battery. Other best thing is that the money is paid within 7 days after the mobile phone is received. The last and the best part is if at all the mobile phone is damaged then also the user can find some mobile phone deals and earn some extra bucks.
All these show that the recycling a mobile phone through some good mobile phone deals is better than keeping it for ever in a cupboard eating dust.
