Don’t bin your mobile

These were the findings of a global consumer survey released by Nokia recently.  

Mobile phones are likely to contain toxic chemicals that are especially dangerous when tossed into landfill.  Based on info from 6500 people in 13 countries, it seems three out of every four people don't think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is even possible to do so. On average each person has owned five phones, with just 3% saying they had recycled an old phone; 4% go into landfill, 44% are being kept at home never used, while 16% of people sell their used devices.

Nokia say that between 65% and 80% of a mobile device can be recycled and current estimates show that almost 90 million old handsets in the UK could be recycled.

Sources: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/15948/16972/nokia-3-recycle-old-phones.phtml