Recycle your mobile phone and raise money for charities linked to hearing loss

1. Recycling Mobile Phones
Sustainability & Environment Awareness
Heidi Walsh 2010

2. • Most people change their mobile phone
every two years
• Newer mobile phones have more features
that are useful for hard-of-hearing and
deaf people:
– Multimedia messaging
– Instant messaging
– Bluetooth (to link to loop/hearing aid)
– Internet access

3. Why Recycle Mobile Phones?
• 10 million phones discarded per annum
• Contain toxic metals such as cadmium,
lead, mercury, nickel and lithium
• Many of these elements do not
decompose
• If mobile phones are disposed off through
landfill, these chemicals can pass into the
water table

4. Selling Your Mobile Phone
• Remove your SIM card and any data first!
• Use a comparison website to see how much you
could get:
• http://www.comparemobilephonerecycling.co.uk/
• Could vary from less than £5 to £15
• You won’t get much unless it is a really recent
mobile phone

5. Raise Funds for Charities
• Many charities collect and recycle mobile
phones
• This is an easy way to raise funds for your
favourite charities

6. Charity Contacts
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
• 01844 348 100
• info@hearingdogs.org.uk
Sense for Deafblind People
• Simply post to FREEPOST SENSE
MOBILE RECYCLING

7. Recycling Old Mobile Phones
• If your mobile phone is too old to be re-
used, the metals can still be recovered
and re-used
• Charities can sell the phones to
companies who do this
• Local authorities have to have recycling
facilities
• Most mobile phone shops have facilities

8. Other Recycling Options
You can also raise funds by collecting:
• Printer cartridges
• Stamps
• Old clothes / shoes
• Empty Tassimo discs and packaging,
Kenco Refills & Danone / Actimel /
Shape Yoghurt pots (for ATLA please )
– http://www.terracycle.co.uk/