Recycle your mobile phone for cash
There are several companies and charities that will now help you to recycle your old and unwanted mobile phones. Some of these companies will even pay you for recycling your phone with them, which seems an excellent incentive to encourage people to recycle rather than throw away. Listed below are three such reputable companies, whom we recommend that you check out and see which gives you the better deal. Either way all three are well established in this field.
Don't forget that by recycling your mobile phones you are helping to reduce pollution as they will not be part of a landfill site. You are also saving on valuable natural resources such as metals that are used to make the millions and millions of mobile phones sold each year. Recyling recovers the metal that has already been extracted from the Earth so that less new metal has to be mined. This therefore also saves energy as less mined metal means less fossil fuels used in the mining and processing of the metal ores. Of course using less fossil fuels means a reduction in carbon emissions which will help in the fight against global warming. Also mobile phones contain components which contain harmful chemicals which can leak into land and water-based environments if they are not disposed of carefully, so recycling them avoids this unnecessary pollution too.
Note - If you live in the USA please click here for suitable websites where you can recycle your mobile phone.
Where you can recycle your mobile phone online...
Envirofone mobile phone recycling - click here to see how much you could receive for your mobile phone if you recycle it with Envirofone. Or learn more
about Envirofone below.
Mobile Phone Xchange - UK based mobile phone recycling. Recycle your phone and find out how much your phone is worth. Learn more about Mobile Phone Xchange below.
Fonebank mobile phone recycling - click here to see how much you could receive for your mobile phone if you recycle it with Fonebank. Or learn more
about Fonebank below.
If you live in the UK, Ireland or the Netherlands, Envirofone will pay you for recycling your old and unwanted mobile phones with them. So not only do you help the environment in several ways by not throwing it away in the bin, you can also
receive a payment for recycling! It is a win-win situation. Now is your chance to recycle all those old mobile phones that you didn't know what to do with!
The site also
states that it will pay you £5 for every friend you refer to the site who goes on to recycle their mobile phones, which is fantastic as it gives you a great incentive to spread the word and get more people to recycle their phones. It provides you with jiffy bags and a freepost address to send your phone to. Note - If you want confirmed recorded delivery though you will have to pay a small fee, recommended by the site for valuable phones and packages. The site will arrange free courier collection for larger packages (see site for further details).
So you can see that by taking just five minutes to recycle your mobile phone with Envirofone you will have a positive environmental impact on the planet and also make yourself some spare cash.
There are some simple conditions attached - the mobile phone you wish to recycle should power up and be in a workable condition and not have significant damage to it. It should not be barred and the battery should still be part of the phone. It also currently needs to be of a UK/European specification and will have to be one of the many phones listed on the site, although you can contact them if you have a phone that is not listed on the site. The site will automatically recycle any phones that are not listed on the site (that they cannot value) and that are over 5 years old. They will even pay you a percentage of phone value for some damaged phones.
Mobile Phone Xchange are one of the biggest recyclers of mobile phones in the UK and a popular site through which you can recycle your mobile phone and receive some money for doing so. You can return your unwanted mobile phone to their freepost address given on the site or request an addressed envelope from the site during the online recycling process. The site recommends that you obtain a certificate of posting, which does seem sensible if you are sending something of small value through the postal service. The site will pay you by BACS (bank transfer) or cheque, it's up to you which you prefer.
Again as with any site you are using please ensure you read the terms and conditions associated with your transaction. This is another reliable site to use so feel free to compare it with the others listed here to see if you get a reasonable price for your mobile phone that you want to recycle. No stolen or barred phones.
Fonebank is a UK based business which will also pay you to recycle your unwanted mobile phones with them. It is a simple to use site, reliable and gets your payment to you quickly. They will dispose of mobile phones which have no value too in an environmentally friendly way.
They provide you with a freepost address to which you should send your mobile phone for recycling once you have completed the simple online process. It is advisable to forward your phone to them in a jiffy bag or well-padded envelope to protect it from damage. Like all sites that pay you to recycle your phone with them, they will not accept phones that are stolen or barred. If you have 15 or more phones to recycle you can arrange for free collection of them through the site.
There are also a few important conditions attached and you should certainly familiarise yourself with the site's FAQs if you have not used them before.
and get paid to recycle your games consoles and games.