Recycling Mobile Phones is good for the environment and your pocket!

Recycle is the process of producing new materials by using old and unwanted materials. The electronic waste is increasing day by day due to change in technology everyday. Each new innovation in electronics and semiconductor device field , force to replace old by new. The old mobile phones are one of the largest contributor to the electronics waste. The electronics waste are very toxic in nature. The mobile phone contains toxic materials like Cadmium,Lead,Brominated flame retardants and Beryllium. These substances needs to dispose in safe manner. looking at the present facts on mobile phone approx more than 25 million mobile phones were purchased in the UK (2004 – LG) and it expected that one billion handsets will be sold each year by 2009. The facts says that more than 90 million phones not in use and taking extra space in drawers and cupboards across the UK. If the old phone not recycle or dispose in right manner it can reducing the consumption of fresh raw materials, reducing energy usage, reducing air (from incineration)and contaminate land water. The many agency now looking forward for disposing or recycle mobile phones. They collects the mobile phones from the user and then treat than properly and dispose the unwanted material in such a way it will not effect the environment. The old mobile phone is fit to reuse then it can resell in second hand mobile market. If the other components like ics, lcd, pcb etc. are in good condition then it resold. The Recycle old mobile phones electronic part is recovers many part like Separate metals, metals from battery, plastic body recovery, reuse of PCBs (printed circuit boards), connectors including gold-coated edge contacts on PCBs, ICs (integrated circuits), keyboards, LCD screens, lenses, microphones, phone housings, screws, SIM card assemblies and speakers.The Recycle old mobile phones can earn you some money for recycle with the proper mobile phone organization. The old mobile phone recycling earn you money for a saving our environment and nothing better to earn money for a noble cause like saving enviroment.

Mobile phone recycling

I'm sure many people will be looking for a new mobile phone this Christmas, and with so many new handsets out at present like the N95 8GB, K850i, Viewty, G800 or iPhone to name but a few, it's going to be a hard choice. But don't let the excitement of your new phone make you forget about disposing of your old one responsibly.

Each year, over 100 million mobile phones are thrown away in Europe.
In most cases they are discarded, sent back to dealers, or left lying around in drawers and cupboards gathering dust.

A recent survey from T-Mobile suggested that the UK population is sitting on 52.3 million old phones, with a combined value of £1.1bn!

envirofone.com is the UK's number 1 online mobile phone recycling site, in the last year they have paid out £1.5 million to buy back unwanted handsets. Their service is free to use, pays you cash for your old mobile and helps the environment.

Your old mobile phone could be worth over £100 when traded in, they list over 800 phone models and accept both working and non-working phones (lower value offered for non-working), so give them a try!

Learn more at envirofone