| Recycle, Recycle, Recycle | | | | properly. And there's a drought on. |
| Very important. Never ever throw a mobile phone, cell | | | | Striving for a better future |
| phone or any other type of electrical gadjet into the | | | | If mobile phones are correctly recycled it can help by |
| trash. You should always recycle mobile phones and | | | | decreasing the minerals such as Coltan, Lead, Copper, |
| electrical gadjets. If only you knew why it was so | | | | Gold etc (and others) from being mined for in in third |
| important. | | | | world countries like the Amazon rain forests, the |
| The whole world is on a budget. Yet we have a | | | | Congo and Africa where it is destroying the natural |
| demand for technology such as in the | | | | habitats for the precious animals and other life that |
| tellecomunnications industry. But where do you think all | | | | exist there. |
| the materials needed come from? Do you think we | | | | Because of the high demand for these types of |
| just have an endless supply of resources? Have we | | | | metals, people who live in these countries are being |
| taken it all for granted that much and become that | | | | exploited. Such as young children who are forced to |
| complacent? Well that is the world today. | | | | work searching for and stripping mobile phones of the |
| There has to be a realisation. And we need to make a | | | | metals. You may have read press reports how these |
| change | | | | children end up with high levels of chemicals inside their |
| They say on average every home in the US and UK | | | | bodies and contract deseases such as asthma and |
| have at least 2.9 unused mobile phones. (That means | | | | cancer. |
| it's more likely to be 3 than 2) It is estimated there to | | | | That is why we need to make a change! We need to |
| be around 80 million unused mobile phones in the UK | | | | do more to recycle our mobile phones and keep the |
| alone just lying around. (130 million in the US) Just lying | | | | demand for the metals down. We all need to work |
| around gathering dust, never to be used again. Sadly | | | | together if we our to have a better, brighter future. If |
| most of these end up so old and never used they | | | | we want to use mobile phones anyway. |
| simply get thrown away. As is the case with mobile | | | | How to recycle mobile phones |
| phones when new ones come out. Whats sadder is | | | | Like most things these days you can recycle mobile |
| it's estimated that only 10% of them are actually | | | | phones. Mobile phone recycling has been doing well for |
| recycled! | | | | the past few years in America and has taken off well |
| Mobile phones are precious | | | | in the UK for the past couple of years now also. |
| Mobile phones contain precious metals such as Gold, | | | | There are companies formed that have the ability to |
| Silver, Copper, Platinum, Titanium and other fine metals | | | | safely recycle mobile phones. They will even pay you |
| that can be smelted down and used again in brand | | | | to do so! |
| new phones. If you extracted all the gold from 80 | | | | Mobile phone recycling companies normally have |
| million mobile phones and got 0.2 gms out of each. | | | | website you can go on to register with and send them |
| You'd end up with 16000000 gms. Which is 16 metric | | | | in your phone. They will normally send you payment |
| tons! That comes to a lot of gold and money thrown | | | | for the phone in a matter of days. It's all very genuine |
| away and wasted. | | | | and legit and it's certainly a good thing. Any kind of |
| Mobile phones also contain toxic materials such as | | | | recycling is but with what we know about mobile |
| Cadmium, Lead, Coltan, Beryllium and Brominated | | | | phones and what goes on to make them this definitely |
| flame retardants used in batteries electrical capacitors | | | | is. |
| in mobile phones. These toxic materials do not break | | | | Why they pay you & what happens now |
| down and biodegegrade in the ground in landfill sites. | | | | The reason they pay you for your old or unused |
| They sit there in the ground for decades releasing | | | | mobile phone is because of the value the phone holds |
| harmful poisonous chemicals that can get into and | | | | to them. As you know every phone has precious |
| pollute the water supply. They say in London over 80 | | | | metals inside which can be extracted and smelted |
| billion olympic sizes swimming pools worth of water | | | | down. These metals are then sold back to mobile |
| could be polluted by discarded mobile phone batteries | | | | phone companies who reuse them in the making of |
| every year! Up to 600 thousand litres of water can be | | | | brand new mobile phones and other electrical gadgets. |
| polluted by one single cadmium mobile phone battery. | | | | So safely sell and recycle your old mobile phones |
| With Londoners buying more than 1.3 million new | | | | online for cash and never throw them away. |
| mobiles a year that's 820 Billion litres of water that | | | | Safely sell and recycle mobile phones online for cash. |
| could be polluted if old mobile phones are not recycled | | | | |