Mobile Grime Prevention
Skip content17 May 2006. ActionAid Recycling, a fundraising organisation for the international development agency ActionAid, is launching its 2006 Mobile Phone Amnesty - and you can win some great prizes by taking part …
By collecting old, unwanted mobile phones and PDAs (as well as empty toner and inkjet cartridges) ActionAid Recycling can then sell these otherwise waste products to the recycling and remanufacturing industries. Last year, 75% of the business profits from these sales went to support ActionAid. In 2005, ActionAid helped over 13 million of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people in more than 40 countries around the world.
Recycle your old mobiles and PDAs with ActionAid Recycling between June and July ’06 - and you could be in with a chance of winning one of several fantastic prizes including a free weekend stay at a 4 star hotel or a year’s free subscription to this magazine. (See www.mobileamnesty.co.uk for further details and to order your Freepost bags to return your old mobiles and PDAs) …
Today - in the UK alone - 77% of us have at least one mobile phone to our name. Even though designed with an average lifespan of 10 years, we are now consuming handsets at the rate of 1 every 18 months. This means that 15 million of us are replacing our handsets annually. As manufacturers continue to introduce new models and pander to our desires to possess the latest developments in mobile phone technology, the life cycle of the average mobile phone is becoming very short indeed.
Old, unwanted mobiles and PDAs can be reused or recycled for their material parts and ActionAid Recycling pioneers the way ahead on this issue.
In fact, many of the mobile phones and PDAs ActionAid Recycling collect can be put back to good use in parts of the Developing World where there is little or no landline infrastructure - and where the costs of telecommunications can generally prohibit their use.
Old mobiles and PDAs that can’t be reused because they are beyond economic repair can instead be broken down for their parts. Did you know for example that mobile phones contain small quantities of platinum, gold, silver and copper?
To take part in ActionAid Recycling’s 2006 Mobile Phone Amnesty, visit them at www.mobileamnesty.co.uk
ActionAid Recycling also provides a whole host of other related services. To find out more visit www.actionaidrecycling.org.uk email them:
recycling@aarecycling.org.uk or Tel: 0117 304 2390
