Recycling your old mobile phones is a good way to clear out some clutter from your home and make a bit of cash besides. It is thought that there are on average, four unused and unwanted phones in every household in the UK. This works out to be approximately 50 million phones nationwide. Every one of these phones could have a cash value.
Companies such as Fonebank and Mobile Phone Exchange offer a service that will value your phone according to its make and model and pay you that value if you return your phone to them. Obviously more up to date phones will be worth more, but if you are one of those people that upgrade their phone on a regular basis you can often get over £100 for your old phone.
If the phones you have lying around are not really worth anything, you can still make use of these services as they will take broken and older models in for recycling, free of charge. These phones will either be broken down for parts to be used in repair centres or sent on to specialist recyclers for the reusable materials to be extracted.
Using these services is a good way to extend the useful life of an old mobile and prevent the dangerous materials they contain from getting into the environment. So next time you’re offered an upgrade it’s really worth looking into getting your phone recycled, you could even make a bit of cash out of it.
