How recycling your phone can help people the other side of the world

You've just bought a new mobile phone - what aremercury, cadmium and arsenic as well as others. We
you going to do next? RECYCLE THE OLD ONE!!do not need those in landfills or incinerated - polluting
Why recycle old phones? Who would want an oldthe soil, air and water supplies.
mobile phone? Actually, plenty of companies wantHowever, as we obey that rule of not throwing it
those old mobile phones. By recycling our outdated,away, we can find ourselves with one, two or more
faulty or otherwise obsolete mobile phone, we canmobile phones collecting dust on a shelf or in a drawer.
help the environment. By recycling responsibly, we canThose phones aren't helping us and certainly are not
help everyone throughout the world.helping anyone else. The only good thing about those
The number one rule for discarding our older phones isphones is that they aren't in a landfill harming the
DO NOT THROW IT IN THE BIN.environment.
Mobile phones contain many toxins such as lead,