There are close to billion phones that are freshly manufactured every year all over the world. Sadly, just around 1% of those mobile phones are turned in for recycling. Experts are pleading that people pay heed to the billions of dollars that get lost and to the opportunity of keeping our planet green. A popular mobile phones manufacturer recently stated that every phone that lands up in a landfill has around 150 gm of rare materials including silver and gold. As all these materials go to waste, this is another important reason why experts all over the world are encouraging people to opt for mobile phone recycling.
Since mobile phone recycling has an important incentive in the form of easy cash, it is a good enough motivation for anyone to choose it. The fact that it also helps in safeguarding our planet is an added bonus.
A study carried out on Europe where around one 60 million mobile phones are discarded per year showed that it is almost equivalent to a loss of US$500 million in the form of rare materials. Had these materials been recycled they could have substantially reduced the cost of each mobile phone.
There are many reasons why you should put your old handset through mobile phone recycling. It is not just about the money you can learn from it. It is also about protecting our planet and reusing the rare materials so that the cost of new electronic gadgets gets reduced and the important materials do not get wiped off of our planet.
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Mar 12
Benefits of Mobile Phone Recycling
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Mar 12
Schools asking for donations
Many schools in the UK could gain from donation of funds collected by mobile phone recycling. Millions of new cell phones are manufactured and sold every year, with around 80 per cent end up in landfills. The phones contain metals inside which are becoming rarer for many countries including Japan, which is a leader in production of world’s electronics. That is precisely why companies pay to people to engage in mobile phone recycling.
After you have recycled your mobile phone, you could donate the proceeds to any of the schools, if you have school kids yourself you may wish your donation to benefit them. Schools can use these additional funds for not only bringing in new and modern technology, but also to upgrade their buildings in order to enhance the student experience.
You could also donate the funds earned through phone recycling to the numerous charities available. Mobile phone recycling is important for a number of reasons. Not only is the individual paid in cash for recycling, but it also is a great deed. Even if the funds are required to pay for the new cell phone or in case one is struggling financially, your efforts in saving the environment are still appreciated.
Precious metals contained in these phones, for instance, nickel, can be reused. Even the plastic used to make the phone can be melted again and reused for cell phones or other electronics. The schools focusing on recycling of phones are also teaching students how important recycling is.
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Feb 12
A New Age Smart Phone Launched
Smart phones are a quite common possession amongst UK residents nowadays. People here have gone to unimaginable lengths to procure one, including opting for environment friendly programs like mobile phone recycling to earn some handy cash for their smart phone purchases. Mobile phone recycling is rapidly gaining popularity as a green come lucrative method for easy cash.
Samsung recently announced the launch of a new mobile device which will make life easier for people who use Tablet PCs or iPads as secondary devices (to take down notes) apart from their smart phones. The launch of this new phone, known as Galaxy Note happened recently in the United States. It consists of a 5.3 inch touch screen operated with an accompanying stylus. Samsung announced that they wanted to make sure that smart phone users got everything they wanted in one single mobile device.
At present, the Galaxy Note is available only from AT&T in the United States, while the other Samsung models are commonly available via different providers throughout the world. The device is currently priced at around $300 and will hopefully be slightly less when it reaches the United Kingdom. It will be launched in the UK only if the reception in the US is above average. Samsung wanted to offer a phone which had the flexibility of a Tablet PC and was handy enough to attend to phone calls.
It is too early to predict if the phone will be successful in breaking the market share of Apple’s iPhone and/or iPad. Many companies have tried this in the past but have failed miserably.
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Feb 12
The Most Recycled Mobile: Blackberry
Just in case you did not know, Blackberry phones rank at the top when it comes to classifying the most traded in cell phones for cash.
Blackberrys stood at the number one position amongst all the mobile phones turned in for recycling. In January, around £2.65 million mobile phones got recycled and Blackberry accounted for maximum number of phones. Apple 3GS also was rated high on the listing fetching £104 on an average for the handset.
Amongst other phones which were recycled, HTC Wildfire, HTC Desire and even Samsung Galaxy S were also noticed. Over the last year, Blackberry has not seen a favourable reputation and this could be one of the reasons why it topped the list of recycled phones as the new year started. Consumers must have been over with their contract and they are now opting for mobile phone recycling in order to earn some cash towards purchasing a new phone. Apple 4S is witnessing maximum interest in 2012 as a brand new phone.
The survey on cell phone recycling stated that among all smart phone sales, Blackberrys increased by about 28 per cent. This is still a very low figure considering that majority of recycled phones were Blackberrys. In the previous month, around 40,000 cell phones have got recycled through each recycler. This is a whopping number and even more astonishing is the fact that so many phones turned in for recycling were in a good condition. This just shows that owners were probably just looking to upgrade their old phones.
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Feb 12
Mobile Phone Recycling: A Means to Help Exploited and Missing Children
It is indeed a matter of concern if our precious children in the society are not cared for or protected. Unfortunately, we see many incidents happening worldwide where children either end up missing or are mistreated. We must understand that they are our country’s future and must be looked after well. A USA company called Sprint has decided to launch a cell phone recycling programme which helps the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. Quite noteworthy is the fact that a substantial sum of money has already been brought in for the noble cause.
The UK does not have any such programme running currently, but nothing should stop anyone from doing their part. Recycling of mobile phones is open to all for helping children. This money can then be given to charities which help children. If you are not keen for a charity donation, could even offer the amount directly to help the children in need.
Cell phone recycling helps in earning cash and if your phone is one of the popular models, you could certainly earn much more from recycling it. However, it does not matter how much earnings you will make, since your end purpose is to help children and any amount towards this cause is always welcome. No wonder, this programme from the USA is gaining lot of interest all over the world. This is one of the greater advantages of mobile phone recycling apart from preserving our environment and planet. Hopefully someone starts a similar type of programme here in the UK soon.
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Jan 12
Apps for Cell Phones keep getting Better
If you want better apps, perhaps you should upgrade to a new phone.
For purchasing your next cell phone, one of the ways to get some money is to engage in mobile phone recycling. For people who already possess a new cell phone, the money earned from recycling can help one to pay it up or deposit it back in the bank account. The point I am trying to drive home is that cell phone recycling can either lead you to buy a new mobile and even some interesting applications.
There is no hiding from the truth that the new generation is keen on having new apps for almost everything. There exists an application now for waste disposal and recycling. Called My-Waste, the app is available free for tablet and mobile phone users. Its sole aim is to remind the users when they should be putting out their rubbish or any other collections for recycling or waste disposal. Currently, the app is only available regionally. It is hoped, however, that such an app will spark more thoughts and something similar will spread further to other cities and countries.
As of now, it is a Canadian application which reminds all residents to put away their trash and recycle it. Even though it is not available to you now, it should not stop you from making mobile phone recycling an essential part of your life. Recycling e-waste means that one is able to protect the environment and make it greener by keeping trash out of landfills.
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Jan 12
Nokia ad may spark more recycling of mobile phones
Recycling of cell phones may just see a sharp increase after the Nokia Ace advertising hits the screen.
Microsoft has budgeted a spend of £63.9 million for a new advertising campaign which is set to be launched with the upcoming Nokia Ace. Experts from the industry believe that this campaign may start mobile phone recycling with new vigour. I am not saying it is an unfounded concept as many do start to look around for new phones which are hot commodities. Finding options for getting rid of old phones is another thing many people tend to look out for. And needless to say, mobile phone recycling happens to be the simple answer to turn in an old mobile and earn some money too.
Around later March, one can expect to see the Nokia Ace in stores. In order to remind buyers about the phone’s entry in the market, the marketing campaign would start sometime sooner than March. Microsoft will be promoting the windows enabled phone option. At AT&T in the USA, they will sell the Nokia, but the release in UK will be a bit later.
Microsoft’s 5.4% market share is way lower when one compares it with the Android platform’s 46.3% share and this is exactly one of the reasons why this new Nokia Ace campaign will be launched at an electronics show in Las Vegas. Not only will this fetch you a few extra pounds, but will also get more people keen towards mobile phone recycling.
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Jan 12
Holidays Surveys on Phone Usage
Talking of mobile phones and their usage, well they are a necessity for most of us, including you and me. Just before this year’s celebrations for the festive season began, a survey was conducted which aimed at determining how many people would be making phone calls or texting using their mobile phones to wish their friends and families. The results were interesting – 55 per cent said that they would send text messages to convey their well wishes while around 62 per cent would be making phone calls. There exists a good bet, which is not shared in any poll results and is about people planning to make use of their new Christmas gift iPhone or other smart phone to send messages or make calls, considering the tremendous amount of cell phone recycling which lasted for some weeks before Christmas.
Communication through mobile phones has exploded especially with the advent of social media platforms. Twitter and Facebook are full of people posting individual messages wishing their friends and family members a Merry Christmas. Despite that, people are making phone calls and sending out text messages. T-Mobile has always found it interesting to understand what people intend doing in the Christmas holidays. Do they spread all festive messages in a very personal way or make use of technology?
Around £186 million is spent online for Christmas day by UK citizens, if results from another survey are to be believed. Most of these purchases are of mobile phones.
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Dec 11
Recycling Cell phones for the new Windows OS
Cell phone owners may opt now for recycling if they wish to use the brand new Windows Phone operating platform.
Cell phone recycling has always attracted many people since as you can receive funds for turning in any old phone. An announcement talking about an entry level Windows powered phone in the United Kingdom has got everyone excited. It would effectively mean that more and more people will now recycle their old mobile phones in order to receive the new platform. T Mobile and Nokia will join hands to bring the US and UK a new platform.
Both in the UK and US, it may definitely bring about a higher number of recycled phones, as soon as the platform is released in both the countries.
Nokia also claims that it will provide the largest network of 4G in the US. They also have features such as People Hub which makes it easy for family and friends to communicate. There is something more to the new phone platform too. You can even enjoy many other applications as well as tools such as T Mobile TV, Netflix and a top web browser. Juniper Research states that in 2012, Nokia Lumia 710 will probably be ranked as one of the very popular phones, especially as it will have the new OS Windows 8. Goes without saying that cell phone recycling will offer funds for people to upgrade to the new operating system.
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Dec 11
Rubbish to get you Money
Now mobile phone recycling can produce good money for you.
Do not throw away your old mobile phone, batteries, TV, computer or the chargers in your rubbish bin. These are just few of the products which are considered e-waste (electronic waste) and must be treated appropriately. For saving the environment, just like we engage in recycling paper, juice cartons, milk cartons, tins and cans, we must also recycle our old mobile phones and all electronic devices to protect our environment.
Most of the e-waste, including computers, contains sensitive materials which are harmful for the earth if they enter into a landfill. We will end up having fewer important materials if we create more e-waste. I am sure that not many of us know that copper is amongst the most common materials which can be regained from e-waste and be reused as the mobile phone enters its final recycling stage. Japan is one of the many countries that pay a good sum for regaining the copper from such e-waste, as it produces many electronics in the market. Nickel and copper are some important materials which are always required for the electronics market and are in scarcity.
Apart from this reason, it is also about environment protection that many companies are now offering money for recycling old mobile phones. Just contact the right location and learn how you can recycle your phone. You must also compare what you will be paid should you turn it over to some other company. Your mobile phone, in some instances, may be resold too.
