The Importance Of Mobile Phone Recycling And E-Waste
Most of us should know the importance of e-waste these days, but just in case you are not aware mobile phones are incredibly dangerous to the earth and to us. In fact, there are chemicals and metals inside of these mobile phones, which if they are not gotten rid of properly, could end up in a landfill in your area. These landfills are already filled to the brim with mobile phones that were not recycled correctly. The metals and chemicals from the batteries screens and other parts of the phone can then actually leak into nearby soil and water by your own home.
I doubt this is something that you would want your kids to be affected by. So what is it that we can do when it comes to recycle mobile? Well, you could get involved in mobile phone recycling when you sell your mobile. I sell my mobile using phone recycling and it’s the best and the coolest thing I have ever done. Not only is it good for the earth, but it’s good for me and my pocketbook! The benefits of phone recycling is varying, but for most people it’s the simple fact that they can get cash for phones! Other benefits:
– Recycling just one phone saves enough energy to power a laptop for 44 hours.
– If Americans recycled all of the 130 million phones that are tossed aside annually in the United States, we could save enough energy to power more than 24,000 homes for a year.
– For every one million phones recycled, we can recover 75 pounds of gold, 772 pounds of silver, 33 pounds of palladium, and 35,274 pounds of copper; phones also contain tin, zinc and platinum.
– Recycling one million phones also saves enough energy to provide electricity to 185 U.S. households for a year.
– Phones, PDAs and other electronic devices also contain hazardous materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and brominated flame retardants. Many of those materials can be recycled and reused; none of them should go into landfills where they can contaminate air, soil and groundwater.
This process, the process of phone recycling has caught on in the European countries such as the UK. In fact, if you look online for keywords such as sell my mobile, cash for phones, iPhone recycling and sell your phone – the majority of the sites you find are all going to be UK sites. The US is catching on, but fairly slowly. If you are in the US you can ask around at some UK sites and see if they would be willing to do business with you. If not, you are just going to have to wait to sell mobile phone and do mobile phone recycling when it comes to your area!
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