Recycling Mobile Phones
News has reached us from Dubai, that residents are thinking very hard about what to do with their old mobile phones. Many have been looking into selling the mobiles for cash, retaining the mobiles for old times sake, or doing their bit and the environment by recycling the mobile phones.
Nokia the mobile phone manufacturer, launched a campaign recently which aims to promote the recycling of old mobile phones. They provided drop-off points at lots of outlets across Europe where residents of those countries were given vouchers to download music in exchange for recycling their unwanted mobile phones, no matter the brand.
10 Nokia approved companies in Europe then recycle the mobile phones and retrieved the precious metals which are contained within them.
In an impromptu poll that was undertaken recently 20% of people questioned said that they had sold one of their mobile phones at some point, whilst 14% commented that they were currently still using their old handsets, a further 10% record that they had been their old mobile, the remaining percentage favoured mobile phone recycling.
One of the people questioned commented that he had heard that the mobile phone recycling facilities were available but that he had no idea where they actually were. He also mentioned that he would normally give his old mobile phones to friends and family, however he was reluctant to recycle them because of the lack of receiving anything in return. This goes to show that the mobile phones, even when old art still seemed to retain some kind of intrinsic value.
A lady who was questioned from the UK commented that she actually liked to retain her old mobile phones but conversely when it came to laptop computers she would give these away to children who needed them. She mentioned having heard of recycling facilities and felt that they deaf and I were worth considering, however she also mentioned the fact that at some recycling plants he had heard that all of the materials were getting mixed up together.
