PLEASE NOTE: All articles are copyright but you can link to this page by copying and pasting the html code EXACTLY as shown. Thank you. <a href="http://www.1st-4-cheap-mobile-phones.co.uk/articles/art17.shtml" > <b>Mobile Phone and Cell Phone Articles</b></a> Join The Mobile Revolution by Andrew Brown www.actionaidrecycling.org.uk Amazingly an estimated 90 million phones are lying around unwanted. Laid end to end this would reach from London to New York (and back again!), and they would weigh 12,000 tonnes. In the UK alone there are 40 million phone users and this is growing every year. As new phones are introduced people upgrade to the latest model, adding to the mountain of unwanted phones. They may be small, but mobile phones contain more than you think. The casings are plastic, whilst the circuitry is made of over 12 different metals and elements. The batteries contain cadmium, which can cause toxic contamination of landfill sites. All this is non- biodegradable and bad for the environment. Instead of throwing away your old phones or leaving them around to end up as waste, you can recycle them through ActionAid Recycling and help to raise funds for ActionAid's overseas development work. ActionAid are the UK's third largest overseas development agency. They work with over nine million of the world's poorest people in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. By donating your phone to ActionAid Recycling you can ensure that your phone is either re-used in poorer countries where mobile technology is replacing either failing or non-existent landline communications, re-sold back into the market, or recycled, ensuring that potentially hazardous substances are not thrown into landfill. Think about it! Donating your unwanted phone can make a real difference. You get rid of something you no longer want; less waste ends up in landfill sites, improving the environment; your phones could end up being put to good use, in a country without a landline infrastructure; and ActionAid Recycling can raise more money for ActionAid's work improving the lives of some of the world's poorest children and communities. To find out more about how you could change someone's life and improve the environment, contact ActionAid Recycling on 0117 304 2390, or e-mail: recycling@aarecycling.org.uk. For further information, please visit: www.actionaidrecycling.org.uk This article courtesy of http://www.mobilephonesites.co.uk. You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact. [CaRP] XML error: mismatched tag at line 13 |
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