Recycle Phones For Money

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Millions of mobile phones end up in landfills every year. On an average, people replace their cell phones every 18 months. Can you imagine how many cell phones are being needlessly thrown away? Most of these phones are still working or some can still be fixed and resold. Some broken phones are still valuable. How? Well wireless devices contain materials such as gold, silver and platinum. Gold is used in the phone’s main circuit board. If we can use some parts of an old phone to create a new one it means that the need to produce new materials will be less thus helping our environment to take in less toxic materials as well. Have you ever thought how to recycle cell phones for a good cause?

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