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Recycle A Phone, Protect The Environment And Your Pocket!

By: Keith R Lunt


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Recycling is all the rage at the moment in the UK. We are being advised that we are drowning below a mountain of babies’ nappies, that plastic bags are covering the land we walk across and there will be heaps of crushed glass bottles everywhere we go before long.

And it is right, we need to do something about the situation. We cannot go on just purchasing and dumping forever. For a start, we will run out of huge holes in the land into which we can dump our expired waste and secondly, we will soon have used up all of the vital oil supplies and other important basics that are used to make these products.

The problem is, the situation is becoming poorer. No longer do we all instinctively put that last piece of string into our pockets to store just in case it was needed as our grand parents did. Instead, it is not worth the effort.

Worse still, the price of digital goods is lessening rapidly and as everybody keeps saying, they are not made as well as they were 20 years ago (or so I am told!!!).

These days even a TV can be purchased for next to zilch so when it breaks down, it is less expensive to head out to the shops, or just open your internet browsers, and get a new one. The exertion of finding someone to repair it and then almost certainly paying half of the cost of a new one is not worth it.

Yesterday, my dad told me he had been quoted £250 by a big name PC shop just to open up his notebook and see if the power supply was running. If it required any fixes, that cost would be on top of that. Given I had myself just purchased a cheap netbook for £240, the fix was far more than the computer was worth.

These electronic devices which have the built in batteries are by far the worst. These batteries can have elements such as mercury that can poison the ground and do need recycling.

And that is why there are blogs springing up that deal with the problem of finding places where the general public can sell old mobile mobiles. There are lots of them appearing, for a good reason.

The problem with the phone is that it contains many resources, some exceedingly valuable. Plus, loads of people replace them every year, maybe even having more than just the one handset. So it is a pity that when a replacement phone is purchased most people will just throw the old one in the bin.

Instead, go to a cost comparison site. Yes,they really do exist! Type in the make and model of your phone and they will show you the best paying directories on the web that can recycle your old mobile for you. Then, not only are you doing your bit for the environment, but you are also earning yourself a small amount in the process.

Feel good for being environmentally friendly and get some extra cash. What could be better?

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Written by Keith Lunt, owner of www.formbyonline.com and www.mobilephonebuyer.org.uk.

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