Recycle Old Mobile Phones

The dangers to the environment caused by greenhouse gas omissions’ resulting in global warming has become more of a hot-topic of late. Inevitably this has led to recycling becoming an everyday part of life, seeing many companies investigating ways to turn it into a profitable part of business.

With the amount of mobile phones lying unused around the country estimated at 80 Million with their value believed to be nearly £2 Billion, it was only going to be a matter of time before ways were found to provide cash to consumers in exchange for unwanted phones.

As a rough guideline, the sum provided for an old handset such as the Motorola V3i can be as much as £15 for one in acceptable working order. Even broken handsets can still fetch up to around 70% of that amount making it an option really worth considering.

It is surprising to learn that something such as recycling can be turned into a viable commercial venture, but a closer look at the process involved and the varied materials used in mobile phone development does offer substantial explanation.

Metal is obviously more valuable than other materials, and as some models do use these kind of materials for outer controls as well as the internal components there is much more to be extracted than you would expect.

Components such as memory card drives, speakers & microphones can be removed and re-used if in adequate condition. Even displays can be removed for recycling as well and again dependent on condition, can be re-used too.

Back in 1989, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal was opened for signature and came into force in May of 1992, which has eventually led to the recycling boom we see today.

As many of the major mobile phone manufacturers have signed up to this treaty agreeing to cooperate in developing environmentally sound management of end-of-line mobile phones, an influx of viable in-expensive ways to recycle old devices have become available to consumers..

As there are so many profitable and simple methods of disposal, there is now no excuse to hanging onto your old mobile phones bemoaning the lack of options to get rid of them.

When looking for your next Mobile Phone Offer you wish to Recycle Old Mobile Phones if you wish to protect the environment whilst perhaps making a little money too. -Darren Evans