subject: Right Time to Recycle Your Mobile Phone [print this page] Right Time to Recycle Your Mobile Phone Right Time to Recycle Your Mobile Phone
As the mobile phone technology advancing at an extremely rapid pace; the mobile phone users in India love to get newer models of cell phones without disposing of their used mobiles properly or in the eco-friendly way. Most of them toss their used mobiles into the trash and create an environmental nightmare. So, need of the hour is to spread awareness about numerous and undeniable benefits of cell phones' recycling. Without any doubt, mobile phone recycling is the best possible solution that saves time, money and more important than anything else, our planet The Earth. In 2010, the survey conducted by India's top online mobile store Mobilexchange.in' and one of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers Nokia in 13 countries, revealed that only 4% of mobile phones India users recycle their old mobile handsets. That means, majority of people prefer a sell mobile phone program and avoid their social and environmental responsibility in the way. Actually, we need the government of India and more and more mobile manufacturing companies and as well to come forward with mobile phone recycling policy. Mobile handset recycling is truly the best and responsible social move because these phones are made of some toxic materials that play their role in global warming. Some of the toxins your phone may include;
Mercury
Lead
Arsenic
Beryllium
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Cadmium
Selenium
Brominates
Chromium
Barium
Unfortunately, there are lots of mobile phones India users who throw their used mobiles into the trash that ultimately ends up in landfills. These landfills resulted in releasing toxic chemicals into the environment. The above mentioned bio-accumulative toxic compounds leach into the soil, natural resources and especially limited pure clean ground water. And finally, they build up in the fatty tissues of creatures, and then are concentrated at the top of the food chain.
Do you know that mobile phones' recycling and saving energy not only save our planet, it saves you and your funds as well because a single battery can pollute a whole lake. So, you should give much importance to green mobile technology as it costs very less, but reduce global warming, the quantity of waste going to the landfill sites and help us better to improve the living conditions on the Earth.
At the end, it is the right time to start awareness campaign for recycling of old mobiles among mobile phones India users, as it has various multi-dimensional benefits.
