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How to recycle mobile phones. Mobile phone recycling has now become very popular and there’s a big market for recycling mobile phones and other electrical gadgets like iPods, iPhones and games and games consoles. Mobile phones are worth their weight in gold, literally. And are recycled for the gold that they have inside as well of other precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead, mercury, alloy, zinc, and more. These metals can be taken from the phones and smelted down to form a huge, huge amount.

Mobile phone usage is always growing at a truly phenomenal rate. We purchase over 1000 new handsets an hour every hour. Yet alone, we throw away over 10 million old handsets every year just in the UK! It really is amazing. So with this demand for new mobile phones and the metals needed to make them comes with it great opportunity for people.

Mobile Phone Statistics

It’s astonishing to think that in the UK 70 million mobile phones are in use which works out at an ownership rate of 116%. Worldwide there are over 4 billion mobile phones in use working out at 60% an amazing statistic considering the short time in which mobile phones have been truly practical.

Cash for Mobiles

It’s the new thing! Everyone ‘s going mobile recycling crazy and recyling mobile phones for cash! The young and old alike. Teenagers everywhere are digging out and finding old mobile phones from under their beds and dusty drawers and selling them online for quick and easy cash!  Read more...

Every 12 – 18 months mobile phone operators make it possible for their customers to upgrade their handsets to the latest models. In the United Kingdom alone this is leading to as many as 80 – 100 million unused phones collecting dust in people’s drawers and cupboards.

Specialist mobile recycling companies are now offering to pay consumer and businesses either cash or vouchers for returning their old phones. Some also give you the option to give either a percentage or all of the value of your mobile phone to charity. By simply entering the model of the phone you want to sell its easy to find out the price they are willing to pay. If you are happy with the price they offer, fill in some basic details and these companies will even send you a freepost padded envelope for you to return your old mobile in.

In order to return your old phone it must be in full working order and any damage must only be through normal wear and tear. You’re not required to return the charger or box but the phone must have its original battery. Some of these mobile recycling companies will even take your old phone off you if it’s faulty, although you will receive a reduced payment if it’s in a bad condition.  Read more...