How to recycle mobile phones?

You wake up one fine morning looking forward for a hot cup of coffee only to be met with a severe cramp that runs along your back. You look about and there, under the coverlet are discarded mobile phones – you’ve been sleeping over them all night! Shoving them away, you reach the doors to fetch the day’s milk. But en route, you step over more of them – they seem to be everywhere! The kitchen is so full of them as well – an old Nokia 1100 on the table, a cast-off Samsung Lucido in your kettle and your fridge – it’s got old mobile phones crawling all over it.

Flabbergasted, you open the dresser, but the thing spews out an avalanche of conked out handsets. You run out to the streets in your pajamas and lo! The whole of London is engulfed in a Brobdingnagian mass of discarded mobile phones. People are running about wide-eyed – your city has sunk in to a pernicious mobile mass. What now?

Now that’s some yarn, huh? But folks, if we don’t recycle our mobile phones, it is possible that the darn things could gobble us up one day– there are that many of them. According to the Guardian, nearly 15 million mobile phones are discarded in the UK alone each year – now that’s a staggering enough number, but only 4% of them are being recycled.

But why should mobile phones be recycled in the first place?

Nokia says that 100% of the materials in the phone can be recovered to make products such as musical instruments, park benches and what not. Isn’t is worth your while to put your unused mobile phone to good use? Also, if you choose to be plain right lazy and dump it down the garbage can, you will be harming the environment a great deal. So, how to recycle mobile phones? It’s quite simple actually.

Method  1: If you own a Nokia mobile phone, all you have to do is take it to your nearest dealer. But of course, there are a few things that you’ll have to do before doing so. Make sure that you have a back-up of all your contacts, photos, email, documents etc. Remove all your personal information from it, remove the sim cards and memory cards if any. After you’re sure that the handset does not have even the tiniest traces of you in it, walk to your nearest Nokia dealer. Read more about recycling a Nokia mobile phone. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also allow for such mobile phone recycling schemes.

Method 2: There are a horde of mobile phone recycling websites available in the world wide web. These sites can take your old mobile phones in exchange for cash (Certain mobile phones can fetch you as much as £400!)– so you not only do your bit to save the environment, but make your purse bigger as well. Here are a few sites that provide mobile recycling schemes: Envirofone MoPay Mazuma Mobile Phone Xchange Fonebank

Method: 3 You can also help raise funds for charity using your mobile phone. Here are a few sites that do so: Help the Aged GuideDogs Recycling Appeal Cartridges for Charity Green Source

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