5 Reasons To Recycle Your Old Cell Phone
5 Reasons To Recycle Your Old Cell Phone
The growth rate of mobile devices is five times greater than that of the human race!
We say we’re in a technological age, and it would appear to be true!
There are currently 8.97 billion mobile phones in the world and 7.7 billion humans.
Protects wildlife
One thing I didn’t know is that gorillas are being massacred to the point of extinction as miners aggressively dig for an ore called coltan that is used in cell phones.
So save the gorillas by recycling your phone!
Reducing our ‘fast tech’ culture
The average person updates their handset every couple of years, but did you know they can last up to 9 years?
A phone recycled through SellCell gets resold 4.5 times and its lifecycle spans 9 years before reaching the end of its useful life.
Metals in cell phones are valuable
For every one million cell phones recycled, we can salvage 20,000 lbs of copper, 20 lbs of palladium, 550 lbs of silver, and 50 lbs of gold.That’s an awful lot of valuable and precious resources.
Only a small percentage of cell phones are recycled
It shocked me to discover that only 15% of cell phones are recycled.
For Zero Waste Week then, why not make the pledge to liberate your old electronics!
You could make some cash, you’ll be helping the environment and you’ll be preserving resources for the future – what’s not to love!
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