Don't Throw Your Phone in the Bin, You Could Go to Prison

'What? You mean I can actually go to jail for throwinginto safe and responsible hands, who will know what
a mobile phone in the bin?' Yes, it's that serious! Into do with such products and put them to good and
recent years, this country is considering passing lawspractical use. For example, there are mobile phone
that makes it a criminal act to improperly discard arecycling companies who will fix your old broken
used or unwanted mobile, that can be punishable byphones and recycle the phones to less fortunate
imprisonment and/or stiff fines. There are practical andpeople or just use the phone (if it is beyond repair) to
purposeful reasons for this possible ordinance.help with repairs of others, this way keeping down its
A mobile handset is a device made fromcost to the environment in producing these materials.
non-biodegradable products that contains high levels ofSome recycling companies will send used mobile
toxins and carcinogens, or cancer-producing agents.phones to under-developed countries, the military or
These elements often clog up much-needed landfills asnations suffering from natural disasters, such as the
well as its noxious fumes being spread into the air,recent major earthquake in Haiti, in which thousands of
endangering man and beast.mobile handsets were sent to that impoverished nation.
Just imagine large containers of liquid toxic wasteSome areas have recently enabled special drop-off
chemicals being poured into a landfill adjacent to abins designed exclusively for discarding used mobile
nearby community, where hundreds or evenphones, the trouble with these though is that you are
thousands of inhabitants are endangered by suchpotentially throwing away your money when a mobile
powerful chemicals. Now just imagine a whole case ofphone recycling company, such as Mazuma Mobile,
mobile phones or two being dumped in the samethat give you money for recycling the phone with
landfill. It's the same thing.them. They will send you an envelope and you just put
Small wonder that more and more people areyour phone in and send it back to them and wait for
becoming what is now known asyour payment.
"environmental-friendly". You may have heard a lot ofOr one a personal note, you can give it to your loved
talk in recent years about "going green" to protect theones; your spouse, another close family member or a
environment. The above examples are a typicalclose friend.
reason why. There are also various "green"So as shown in the examples above, there are
organisations that are dedicated to impressing thisvarious ways one can properly and legitimately recycle
issue on the public conscience.a used mobile phone without throwing it in the bin,
What is the most effective and safe way to properwhich is damaging to the environment and potentially
discard an unwanted or unused mobile? Through thesoon to be illegal! It is environmental-friendly, practical
process of phone recycling, or getting such devicesand it makes the world a lot safer for you and me.