Recycle your phones!

There are currently 500 million cell phones, weighing over 250,000 tons, stockpiled and waiting disposal. Worldwide, there are over 1.2 billion handsets sold each year. In the United States, there are over 280 million cell phones in use, with over 150 million replaced each year. The average expected lifetime of a cell phone is 1.5 years. The average household has 3 unused cell phones, and over 130 million cell phones are thrown away each year.

Did you know what it only takes 200 cell phones to have enough gold to create a gold ring? That’s much better for the environment than 20-80 tons of waste produced in gold mining. Of the 250,000 tons of cell phones stockpiled, there is over 20 tons of gold worth an estimated value of $235 million.

The good thing is cell phones are recyclable!

But sadly, only 1 in 10 cell phones are ever recycled.

USA: Cell For Cash
Canada: CellCycle
UK: RecycleMobilePhones
Australia: MazumaMobile

-Matt Coppernoll