With all the hi-tech waste that’s generated these days, it’s good to know that there are easy ways to dispose of your old mobile phones, which are harmful to the environment if you just chuck them in the garbage. With today’s increasingly green-conscious world, more people are looking for ways to help out and make it a cleaner, safer place for the next generation. Like all electronic devices, mobile phones contain heavy metals that, if allowed to leech into the soil, will pollute the environment with potentially disastrous results down the road.
Recycling also means that materials that have already been taken from the environment via mining and so forth are reused, thereby cutting down on the drain on the earth’s resources, which are not, contrary to what some people seem to think judging by their throw-away attitude, infinite. Recycling hi-tech waste like old mobile phones also saves energy since raw materials don’t have to be refined, and refining is extremely energy intensive. It also means that the cost of electronics will decrease without the use of raw materials and their expensive extraction methods, plus recycling creates jobs.
If you’re not sure how to have your old mobile phone recycled, Apple has a free programme that makes it really easy to do. All you have to do is visit their website and fill in a form, and they’ll send you a prepaid address label, which you just print and stick to your package, then simply chuck it in the mail and they take care of the rest. It’s good to know that some manufacturers are prepared to offer free disposal of mobile phones and the like to help preserve our environment. Now it’s up to us to make use of this and help keep our environment safe for our kids.
We recommend using an online service such as mobilephoneexchange, to earn back money as you recycle!
