What is the value of your mobile?

Lying in a box or a drawer, it is as good as useless, but if recycled, it surely means a lot.

Recycling cell phones has a lot more to it than just earning some extra cash – although it is good to get money in return for something that is of no use. Recycling mobiles, also helps the environment by keeping hazardous materials away from our landfills i.e. the soil, wildlife, water etc. It is also great for reducing the mining essential for metals that end up in bits. It surely helps the underprivileged by assisting in creating refurbished phones that are sent abroad to be included in humanitarian programmes.

If you trade your mobile phone for vouchers or cash or points, every part that is re-usable is re-used. Phones that are in working condition are refurbished, and then sent to be used anew. Broken ones are dismantled and their parts are used for making new ones. Bits that can in no way be used again are finally recycled.

Recycling cell phones has more to it than just selling it off for some cash.

What is the value of your mobile? It could mean a world to our Mother Earth. To someone from a poor country, it could as well be their first glance at technology. For you it is merely some more money – often much required in times of financial downfall.

So, if I ask you - what is the value of your mobile? Lets us find out together.