Friday, July 30th, 2010

The dangers to the environment caused by greenhouse gas omissions’ resulting in global warming has become more of a hot-topic of late. Inevitably this has led to recycling becoming an everyday part of life, seeing many companies investigating ways to turn it into a profitable part of business.

With the amount of mobile phones lying unused [...]

Cell phones are quickly becoming an environmental problem, old and broken phones are discarded and thrown away that contain very hazardous materials that could harm our health and even the environment. In line with this there has been a new and rising business today. Buying and selling of old and damaged cell phones. A trend [...]

These days, given the tremendous amount of waste that is generated every single day, more and more emphasis is given towards recycling. Organizations and even governments all around the world are calling for the efficient implementation of recycling measures especially since research has shown that the earth’s natural resources are fast depleting because of the [...]

The average life period of a cell phone is about eighteen months, and less than one per cent of the entire number is recycled when out of use. Figures and statistics are impressive as more than 130 million cell phones are thrown away every year, and this is only in the United States. Presently, almost [...]

Mobile phones are made of toxic metals like Cadmium, lead, nickel, mercury, beryllium, manganese, lithium, zinc, arsenic, and copper which can be dangerous to the environment, if not properly disposed off. Every year millions of mobile phones are sold in the UK. And lots of them are disposed without recycling them. But do you know [...]

Some of the most toxic products being tossed out as household trash are cell phones and electronic devices. This type of trash is called e-trash, and especially problematic are cell phones.
Cell phones contain a very high level of toxic substances that enter the environment when discarded cell phones are incinerated or when rainwater leaches these [...]

In several months or years, you’ll rediscover them. By then, the phones will seem worthless to you, so you’ll probably discard them and subsequently, the phones will end up in the local landfill.

How do you recycle cell phones?

Passing your old phones on to family or friends is the simplest method of recycling. The majority of [...]