Selling Your Old Mobile for Cash
It is a fact that more than 80 per cent of all the parts of a mobile phone can be recycled. Unfortunately, only a handful of UK residents realize this. The rest either don’t care or do not have the faintest idea that they can get fast cash if they have their mobile phones recycled.
According to recent research by Nokia, one of the leading manufacturers of mobile phones in the world, only around 3% of mobile phone users bother to have their phones recycled. Most either just throw away their old, unused units when they upgrade or simply put them aside, in the back of the closet or the desk drawer. Nokia also reported that an unbelievably high figure of 75% do not have the slightest idea how to have their old, unwanted mobile phones recycled.
The disadvantages of such lack of information and knowledge include an environmental threat. Mobile phones may contain harmful metals like cadmium, which can prove extremely harmful if it should leak into the sources of water or the soil at landfills.
Another disadvantage of not having the old mobile phone unit recycled is that the mobile phone user is depriving himself of the chance to make money out of selling his phone.
A growing number of companies based in the United Kingdom are getting into recycling old phones and give you cash for mobile phones. These companies host websites with names like Earth Mobile, Mobile Phone Xchange, Envirofone and Fone Bank. The good news is that these phone recycling companies will take both working and damaged mobile phones and send cash to their previous owners.