Sunday, January 13, 2013

Benefits of Mobile Phone Recycling


Benefits of Mobile Phone Recycling

Until now, you must have a few mobile phone models. In the processing of buying a new one, do you remember what you had done with the old one? Well, you must have either left it in your junk drawer or cupboard, or must have thrown it in a dustbin. But do you know that while doing so, you are putting not only the environment but also yours as well as others’ health at a great risk due to harmful chemicals contained in old mobiles? That is why throwing or dumping is not being banned across the globe! Rather, why not prefer recycling your old phones? There are various benefits of mobile phone recycling, which can do much good to the surroundings,yourself and others. Here are most admirable benefits of recycling your handsets.

Protects Environment

It has been endorsed by the researchers that mobile phones and their accessories such as batteries have harmful elements such as mercury and lead, which can pollute the soil, water, and air. When these technology devices are dumped at landfill or sites, these toxic substances pollute groundwater sources and enter food chain to harm the health of all living things. However, recycling helps in taking off these metals so that they can be reused for other purposes.

Conserves Energy

One of the estimates shows that recycling a single mobile device helps in conserving energy that is needed by a laptop to workfor 40 hours. Did you know that around 90 million phones are just lying like that in the homes of the United Kingdom? Now just imagine how much energy can be saved if billions of old mobile phones are recycled! Moreover, by reusing an existing material or metal, the energy that is essential for producing new products gets saved.Further, recycling can help in cutting energy costs. For example, it has been found that more energy cost is involved in manufacturing a brand new metal than recycling around 20 cans of that metal.

Conserves Materialistic Resources


Recycling mobile phones help in extracting useful metals such as gold, iron, and silver and putting them into use again. It is known to all that these metals have multiple uses. Therefore, by giving your old phones for recycling so that these metals can be reused, you are indirectly helping in alleviating the need to mine fresh metals. That is why reuse is one of the biggest benefits of mobile phone recycling. 

Reduces Clutter


It is obvious that when a mobile phone becomes old or when a new mobile is brought, the old one takes up space in some dark drawer. Then, anybody hardly uses it, which leads to unnecessary clutter. On the other hand, if you think of recycling it, the problem of clutter will no longer be there.

Provides Income

One of the most attractive benefits of mobile phone recycling is financial income. Your unwanted non-working or working phones have a lot of value because they are packed with several reusable components as well as pricey metals, which can be revamped to put them to other uses. This reusability factor makes your old phones valuable for which the recyclers are more than willing to pay money against such phones.

As a fact, recycling is a matter of choice but if it brings so many benefits, then why not really go for it?