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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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Cell phones need not necessarily be disposed of or destroyed when they succumb to the pressures of daily use. Most of the cell phones will give in and breakdown after a span of an average of 18 months. More than 130 million cell phones are thrown away each year in the United states alone. This leaves us asking ourselves how many more are thrown away in other countries in total.

In response to this situation which may be termed as a wastage of raw materials, federal laws that emphasize that we recycle cell phones have been enforced but unfortunately we are turning a deaf ear to them, much to our own disadvantage and in large scale.

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In several months or years, you’ll rediscover them. By then, the phones will seem worthless to you, so you’ll probably discard them and subsequently, the phones will end up in the local landfill.

How do you recycle cell phones?

Passing your old phones on to family or friends is the simplest method of recycling. The majority of the phones we discard for an updated model or after switching service providers remain completely usable and functional. If you give it to a friend or family member, you’ll be sure that the phone will have an additional year or two of use. However, this merely stretches out the phone’s life cycle. You can help the environment by telling the person receiving the phone to recycle it properly when the time comes.

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