Have you ever considered what happens to your old phone once you have finished with it? Do you just throw it away, with the rubbish? Or do you act responsibly?
Throwing away that old and no longer needed old handset might seem an innocent enough act, but have you considered what that is doing to the environment? Take the population of a small town, each person renewing their handset every one or two years and that is thousands of phones being thrown out.
Now, scale that up to the whole country and then across all the countries of the world where phones are an every day item!
A hazard in disguise in your pocket
Old mobile are a hazard to the environment. They might seem weak and fragile in our hands and bags, but the elements that make up a handset will last in the waste for numerous years.
In fact, a few of the components of a mobile might be quite dangerous. Take cadmium, which is counted as the seventh most harmful known chemical! Oh, and it is thought to be carcinogenic.
And even more likely nasties
Your handset will perhaps also contain lead. This is fine when the mobile is in tact, but as it is damaged and breaks down this harmful metal could be released into the environment.
There are a load of other components in your innocent looking handset which are totally harmless when it is packaged, but if it is left in a landfill website and allowed to break down, these components can cause dangers and poisoning.
Recycling is the key
So, what is the answer? Well it is quite simple really, recycle the old handset properly. And the best of it is this process is not an expensive process to the end user of the handset. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
Because old phones contain so numerous crucial components, there are companies that might strip down the old handset, reuse the valuable components and correctly recycle what is left.
There is money in an old handset
And because there is money in it for them, they are desperate to get the old handsets from you! This means that for the right make and model of phone, they are willing to pay you quite a load of cash in return.
There is a growing industry of handset recycling and it is even extending to third party web sites that will tell you which are the best places to go to for recycling your particular make and model of handset!
Save the environment,look after your pocket
If, instead of throwing away your existing handset when you upgrade it to a new model you take some minutes to find the best price to recycle it, you can be earning yourself quite a tidy sum of cash for your efforts.
And not just is that a few extra money in your pocket, but it is a small danger away from the landfill sites, so you have done both yourself and the environment a huge favour!
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Written by Keith Lunt. If you want to know more about mobile phone recycling or about mobile phones in general, do call in!
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