Be Eco friendly and recycle your Old Mobile Phone
Sell your mobile phone the sooner the better for the environment. Mobile Phones can be said to be the real face of technological advancements in the 20th century. Although the tech was invented in 1970 it was not until mid-2000s when it started getting widely accepted and mass produced. And soon companies started filling up the market gaps by offering different new features and within a decade most of the developed countries in the western hemisphere have more mobiles than mobile phone users because the rapid phase with which the technology has been advancing has filled all sorts of market gaps and several manufactures even haven’t been able to coup up with the fast pace with which the arena has been changed. Unfortunately awareness of getting mobile phones recycled has not been well focused and has been not been looked at most of the manufacturer. The majority players in the market have made it impossible for the strongest governments to bring any law about making it compulsory for the manufacturers to do more in order to remove their foot prints. One of the major reasons why mobile phones have not been recycled the way they should have is a simple fact that people do not want their mobile phones and data to get into wrong hands. But the fact is these mobile phones are not simple plastic products which should be recycled. The have some really harmful chemicals and parts in them which if not recycled appropriately can be hazardous. These components include
< >Antimony.PVC.Bromine.Selenium.Chromium.Mercury.Barium.Lead.Cadmium.Arsenic among other harmful elements.
If the mobile phone is recycled appropriately, it might reduce the demand of a newer model and buy that it would be easy to save global resources for much longer period. There are many companies who are willing to buy your old mobile Phone but if it’s a newer model they sometimes pay very good amount even if the mobile phones faulty. Most of the times these companies in the UK offer free postage. I wanted to sell my Samsung s8 so I tested Samsung recycle company and it helped me get rid of my mobile phone, and also used another company when I wanted to sell my Samsung s7 edge with broken screen.
Those mobile Phones which can’t be reused or refurbished are then broken down into their components and then those materials are recycled such as plastic and metal is separated and the sold off of plastic and metal recycles and melted again so that new products can be made off them. There is a need for the governments to step in and make sure there products are recycled rather than end up in landfills of poor countries.
