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Help the Environment - Recycle your Mobile Phone

15 Million Old Phones Upgraded  every year in UK

It is estimated that in the UK there are over 100 million old mobile phones that no-one, it seems, knows what to do with. This figure has grown so much over time, now that new, more technically advanced phones are coming out all the time. Around 15 million mobile phones are upgraded every year, and many of these old phones find their way to landfill sites across Britain.

When you throw out a mobile phone, it is taken by the refuse collectors and will invariably end up in some land fill site. With the high numbers of phones and handsets we are talking about, the dumping of old phones cannot go on. figures Slowly, over time, you old phone begins to degrade, breaking down over the years, becoming part of There won't be any room left in which to dump them!

But worse than that, mobile phones include many toxic substances, some of which are the extremely dangerous, such as Cadmium, which is usually in a mobile phone battery. This alone can pollute up to 600 thousand litres of water. Also present in a mobile phone may be Palladium, Rhodium, and Beryllium to name a few. Shockingly, phones can also contain arsenic and mercury.

So don't poison your local environment - recycle that old phone. It's the only option!

If you're interested in recycling, then you should contact one of the professional phone recycling companies. And better still, they buy your old phone from you so there are plenty of great deals available for anyone recycling and selling your old phone.

Todya's Top Deals for Selling Your Old Phone

Re-use and preserve the world's natural resources

Mobile phones also contain various different precious materials such as ceramics, silicon, copper, iron, epoxy, zinc, and nickel, to name but a few, and even precious metals such as bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and titanium. These metals are usually contained within the phones circuit board. All of these materials can be reused in some way, rather than mining or making new materials. The minerals, such as lead and copper, which are present in the handsets, are mined in places such as the Congo and in American rainforests. In order to mine lead and copper, trees are felled and the natural land is scarred from urbanisation and deforestation. Reusing parts from old mobile phones  can significantly reduce the need for such mining and consequential destruction of the natural earth.