February, 2012

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Feb 12

Children in North Warwickshire joining the mobile phone recycling revolution

Children, being our future must learn different ways to protect the environment. A local school in Warwickshire has launched a green initiative to spread awareness about recycling, including the mobile phone recycling among its students. If you too have children at home you may want to educate them about the advantages of mobile phone recycling apart from the recycling of other electronic gadgets and how they help in environment protection.

Sadly, several millions of electronic gadgets end up in landfills every year. If we were to utilise all this electronic waste, it could easily result in creation of 150,000 double-decker buses. You will now agree that the amount of electronics and mobile phones wasted every year is indeed phenomenal.

Recycling of old mobile phones means much more than the money you can obtain from it. It is done mainly with the intent to protect our environment and reuse the precious resources. The countries involved in extensive production of electronic devices, including mobile phones are witnessing severe shortage of certain metals such as copper, palladium and nickel. Metals like these are employed in manufacturing of electronics can be reused through recycling.

An old mobile phone model if emptied can also be resold in the market to a new buyer who will use and love it until it’s no longer usable and can be recycled for its individual parts. It seems that various schools, councils and people are starting to appreciate the importance of mobile phone recycling. It is becoming popular by each passing year especially post Christmas time.

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Feb 12

Trade in Your Old Mobile Phone for the Top 10 New Age Technology Options

The Mobile world Congress 2012 is all set to showcase the top 10 new age technology options for the year 2012. The event will exhibit the latest communication options, mobile phones and will provide information related to the technology industry.

It is scheduled for February end and will be held in Barcelona. The event is to the technology industry what fashion week means to the fashion world. Experts and newbies will be able to gather everything latest in the technology industry and companies will get to showcase their new offerings for the market.

Now is the right time that Tech fans opt for mobile phone recycling to ensure that they have the necessary cash to make up for the short amount for their purchases. Tech fans are in no way different from any common shopper when it comes to the latest products, especially the ones from Orange, MTV, HTC, Apple and Dolby. Any new products are worth looking at for an upgrade.

Mobile phone recycling is an excellent way to generate some handy cash for such upgrades. All you are required to do is trade in your old model of mobile phone for the latest model available in the marketplace or simply exchange the old model for some handy cash. Considering there are top 10 brands that are scheduled to launch their new offerings at the Congress, you will have plenty of options to choose from. In case you are not able to make it to the event, you can get all the news updates to keep yourself informed.

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Feb 12

Old phones to fetch you Money

Just in case you did not know, your old cell phones have the potential to be recycled for instant cash.

A survey conducted recently shows that mobile phone recycling is gaining momentum with more and more Britons opting for it to earn extra cash.  In the previous month, £2.63 million was earned just through cell phone recycling.  On an average, most of the mobile phone fetched £59.58 to the recyclers.  The trade in of mobiles has also increased by about 30 per cent over the last year.

The increase in cell phone recycling is partly due to an increase in smart phones available in the market and people are increasingly demanding new technology so that they can use just one mobile phone instead of several devices.  Devices such as MP3 music players are being recycled too as people are opting for smart phones which can be used for music too.  Apple iPhones and Blackberry are the two mobile phones topping the consumer demand.  They are certainly not cheap either.  A new iPhone costs about £475 pounds.  Since laptops, cameras, TVs and many other mobile phones are now being replaced by smart phones, many prefer to get everything in just one device, even if that means shelling out some extra money.

Mobile phone users can use cell phones for not only downloading music and playing games but also for watching videos and many more functions.  It makes absolute sense to switch to a more costly phone and turn in the old mobile phone for recycling.  The money received from recycling can be directed towards paying for a new phone.

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Feb 12

Apple iPhones 8.3% Recycled

Did you know that the Apple iPhone has touched 8.3% of the world’s cell phone market?  I would attribute this partially to the success of cell phone recycling campaigns wherein the old mobile phones are turned in for refurbishment.  Any Apple iPhone, during such refurbishment projects, which can be reused gets resold.  Not only are such refurbished iPhones more affordable for majority of the people who like Apple phones, but also contribute to the significant 8.3% market share that Apple iPhones currently enjoy in the market.

In the last quarter itself of 2011, Apple sold 37 million iPhones and the entire 2011 witnessed around 93 million iPhones being shipped worldwide.  Apple undoubtedly has cornered the entire mobile phone market.  Recycling is not only beneficial for our environment and our future but also translates to more people being able to afford it.  Many consumers find it difficult to purchase a mobile when it gets released for some hundred pounds.  They then look for other ways to afford it, unless there are some free deals in place which give away phones with a new contract.

Even though this market share is being shared with the older versions of iPhones, it still is a good achievement.  Worth mentioning is the fact that cell phone recycling makes it possible for iPhones to become affordable to many.  An added bonus is that you also get to earn some extra cash each time you turn in your old phone for mobile phone recycling.