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Mobile Phone Recycling Companies

There are several reliable and professional mobile phone recycling companies around these days. We have searched to find the companies who offer the best deals and service, and listed them below, with some examples of their offers and the prices they pay for old mobile phones. They are happy to buy your old mobile phone from you (compare all deals above) because they aim to either refurbish the handset and sell it on, or strip the phone for parts and raw materials.

Envirofone

Envirofone offer some great prices, especially for newer, higher spec models. Plus they send you a pre-paid padded envelope to make sending your phone to them a lot easier.

MoPay

MoPay have paid out around £2m plus to our customers for their old phones. MoPay was one of the first and is one of the most established mobile phone recycling web sites, and as such claims to have rescued over 200,000. MoPay offers a choice of payment options, including gift vouchers from High Street names such as M&S, and electronic bank transfer (BACS). MoPay say they live by their price promise—paying you exactly what you see on the screen for your old mobile phone, so long as it has been graded correctly by you and is not in a state beyond economical repair. They also provide a freepost address and rapid 3 day payment from receiving your handset.

Fonebank

Fonebank specialise in the reuse and recycling of mobile phones and offer a fully inclusive service, including free collection, quick payment and safe disposal of any faulty mobile phones. Fonebank currently reuse and recycle more than 90,000 mobile phones per month from across Europe.

Earth Mobile

Earth Mobile are have been running for around 4 years, and have quickly become well known in the collection of unwanted mobile phones for recycling.  In that time they have raised thousands of pounds for charities, schools and provided a service to many UK companies looking to maximize the value of their unused and end of life mobile assets. Earth Mobile now offer their experience to the general public through their trade-in website here.

Money 4 Ur Mobile

Money 4 Ur Mobile recycle mobile phones, and as the name suggest, will pay to buy the phones from users such as you. They also offer to buy used iPods and inkjet cartridges. One nice touch from Money 4 Ur Mobile is that, if your phone or iPod has no value, they can still ensure this is recycled in the correct manner and will also plant a tree as part of our carbon offset initiative. You do not have to pay anything to send your items to them, but instead, place your mobile phone or iPod in the freepost envelope that is provided.

Sell Old Phone

Sell Old Phone have developed a national program to remove discarded mobile phones from the country's environment while directly benefiting charitable organizations and individuals. They say that by recycling, you give new life to old technology and keep those toxic waste materials from causing harm to our environment. Makes sense to us!

Mobile Phone Xchange

Mobile Phone Xchange offer very quick payment. Once they have received and checked your phone, they will send you your payment within 72 hours.

Sell Old Mobile

Sell Old Mobile aim to protect the environment just as much as helping you get money for your old phone. According to their web site, 80 million phones are discarded every year. There are estimated to be 125 million redundant mobile phones sitting in desk drawers and attics gathering dust at any one time it is also estimated half of these are discarded in landfill sites. Discarded mobile phones can leak toxic waste into river systems, contaminating agricultural land, they contain dangerous chemicals such as cadmium which can be highly carcinogenic.

Boots Recycle

Boots Recycle has a slightly different approach to payment. Rather than sending you a cheque in the post, they will offer to give you points to go on your Boots Advantage Card. You can get points for recycling mobile phones and inkjet cartridges. Please note that the prices given below are actually in "Boots Points" and not in pounds.

What the Recycling Companies Do

Many of the used phones that they buy are reconditioned and prepared for reselling. MoPay, for example, claim that around 97% of the phones they receive can be reconditioned and sold again. These phones are mostly sold to developing countries, or countries where the vast choice of new and technically advanced phones isn't available as it is here in UK. By sending these phones to places such as Africa, the recycling companies are providing a much needed service to many communities in those countries. Landline telephone networks are either limited or non-existent, and very often an recycled mobile phone from Europe is the only convenient way to communicate over distances.

Where a phone can't be reconditioned and prepared for resale, it is usually stripped down for parts and materials. Many mobile phones contain precious metals and raw materials (in very small amounts), for example in the circuit board. Some of the phone recyclers strip the phones to get these materials, in order to sell them on.

As for phones and parts that can't be re-used, the a professional and responsible recycling company will dispose of these parts in the correct manner, under Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) Directive. You can read more about the WEEE Directive here.