| With the advancement in the mobile technology, there | | | | fine with a few minor repairs, because most of them |
| are new mobile phones being launched by some | | | | have the basic features of a camera, music player, FM |
| company or the other every day. These phones apart | | | | radio etc. So, they can be given off to someone in |
| from serving the basic purpose of making and | | | | need of the phone rather than dumping it in your |
| receiving calls are being packed with additional portable | | | | store-room. |
| features like cameras, music players, radio, games and | | | | You can donate your used phones to people in |
| many more. The increase in production of mobile | | | | charitable organizations, especially working women |
| phones, the latest gadgetry being installed in them and | | | | who cannot afford a cell phone otherwise. They are in |
| the lowering of prices of the new ones being launched, | | | | desperate need of a phone when they have to |
| has made many options available to us. Most of us are | | | | contact any person or the police or ambulance in case |
| upgrading our old mobile phones with new ones that | | | | of emergency. So, you can give away your old mobile |
| have some additional features and better looking. | | | | phone to them for a noble cause. |
| But in the midst of all this we tend to completely forget | | | | If you do not consider the option of donating your |
| about our used mobile phones that we usually dump in | | | | mobile, then you can as well exchange it with another |
| one corner of the drawer or throw it away in the | | | | new phone. If you have your old cell phone contract |
| trash. But you must remember that mobile phones are | | | | still running then you can swap it with someone else |
| made up of harmful and toxic materials that can cause | | | | who is in need of it, while you can get a new contract |
| serious environmental concerns if disposed off | | | | for yourself. |
| carelessly. The toxic elements include arsenic in the | | | | Some shops and malls provide a recycle bin for the |
| semi-conductors, lead in the soldering material and | | | | customers to put in their used or discarded mobile |
| nickel or cadmium in batteries. So, once these harmful | | | | phones as well as other electronic devices in it. The |
| chemicals are dumped into the landfills, they can cause | | | | store takes the responsibility of recycling the electronic |
| long term environmental concerns. | | | | waste responsibly under trained supervision and |
| There are better ways to discard your old and used | | | | practices, where the individual parts of the phones are |
| mobile than just dumping them away in the garbage. | | | | broken off and usable parts are reused, while other |
| With the falling prices of mobile today, we upgrade to | | | | wastes are recycled. This is the best way of disposing |
| new phones available in the market while our old | | | | off your old mobile phones which are not in proper |
| phones are still in new condition. Often they can do just | | | | working conditions. |