With the ever increasing march of technology, it is likely you have at least one old mobile phone gathering dust. Did you know that mobile phone recycling is available and you can even get paid for your old phones? Mobile phones contain a plethora of recyclable and reusable materials. In addition, many of those materials should never be thrown in the rubbish to go to the landfill. Inside those phones there is plastic and perhaps glass, lithium from the battery, gold, silver, and copper from the electronics, and a host of expensive and hard to mine rare earth elements. But before even that, if the phone is still in workable condition, a good recycling company will refurbish it for reuse, which is even less energy intensive than full on recycling. There are many people all over the world who would be more than happy to use a phone which you consider dated and blasé. So, keep the chemicals out of the ground and help others with their communication needs. You may even make a little money out of the deal.
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