Are phones difficult to recycle? I don’t think so. And yet, as I look about my house, I see old phones discarded and forgotten, littering floors pointlessly when they could be recycled and put to good use.
What is it about phones, I wonder? When I bought my new phone, it even came with a recyclable plastic bag to put my old model in, so there really is no excuse.
There are a number of old mobile phones lying about the house at the moment, and it seems a bit of a waste.
It’s fully possible to recycle them. I’ve seen many offers over the years enticing me to sell my own mobile for mobile phone recycling – and it couldn’t be more easy to take these companies up on their offers.
In many cases, they send you a package, which you slip the phone into and post back to them. And then you get paid. It’s really as simple as that.
I don’t expect mine is the only house with old mobiles left lying around, so it begs the question – why? Why don’t people take more care to sell or dispose of their old or broken phones in a green and reliable manner?
We live in a society that is obsessed with recycling: there are about four different bins on my road for whatever rubbish might accumulate over the course of a week or two. Food rubbish, plastic, cardboard – the list goes on.
And people have taken to the multi-bin approach very well. People recycle their waste and their drink bottles enthusiastically.
Perhaps it’s a matter of publicity. It’s a bit of a struggle to find any stories about recycling services in the news; I suppose it’s entirely reliant on people being proactive and finding out about what’s on offer.
Tags: mobile phones, recycling
