GBP762 Million Worth of Mobile Phones are Discarded in the UK, According to a New Survey by CompareMyMobile.com

DORSET, ENGLAND, August 10, 2012 (Press-News.org) According to CompareMyMobile.com, an online mobile phone recycling comparison company, the UK who hold on to old mobile phones or toss them into the rubbish are missing out on big bucks and harming the environment at the same time. When recycling old mobile phones, there is "green," so to speak, to be realized in more than one way, but unfortunately many people are missing out because they are unaware that they can recycle phones.

Every year the UK throw over half a million mobile phones into the rubbish, contaminating multiple landfills throughout the UK. An CompareMyMobile.com poll found that GBP762 Million worth of devices are lying around in drawers or poisoning UK landfills. One-fourth of mobile phone owners have never even considered the benefits of recycling an old phone. Even though many mobile phone owners recycle other items like food and drink packaging, paperwork, and books -- none of which generates cash rewards, almost half have never recycled a mobile phone.

CompareMyMobile.com says they hope to increase awareness of the environmental problems phones cause throughout the world. "We hope that by providing people an easy way to compare mobile phone recycling for cash for their mobile phone, that more people will recycle mobile phones to reduce the impact of the hazardous materials on our planet."

Mobile phones contain dangerous chemicals and toxins that could cause major environmental damage. According to CompareMyMobile.com, over sixty million inessential mobile phones currently exist in the UK. With people upgrading their mobile phones every eighteen months due to rapid technological advancements, this number could easily increase.

Therefore, to curtail further damage to the environment caused by dumping unwanted mobile phones into UK landfills, the government initiated a cash-back program granting authorizations to certain companies to handle the recycling of mobiles and electrical gadgets. The success of the cash-back program has created a proliferation of companies who now recycle mobile phones for cash.

So, once convinced that recycling an old mobile phone is the in-thing to do, how does a person know which recycling company offers the best deal? Which one is honest?

CompareMyMobile.com's primary function is to help people through the maze of mobile phone recyclers. Unfortunately, not all mobile phone recycling companies are reliable. Some will take a phone and not send money, or will say the phone was not working. Consumers can research recycling companies to find a reliable one with good reviews, or they can use CompareMyMobile.com that has a list of different reputable and well-known mobile phone recycling companies.

Located online at www.comparemymobile.com, CompareMyMobile.com guarantees its customers will get the most money for their handset. It compares all the popular makes, such as Nokia, Samsung, BlackBerry, Apple, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and LG in a long list of recycling stores. To ensure consumers get the very best price for the devices they recycle, CompareMyMobile.com has partnerships with over thirty-five recycling companies. They regularly test all the recyclers listed in their comparison tables and continually update prices.

In addition to comparing mobile phones, CompareMyMobile.com also compares other devices, including electrical gadgets like cameras, computers, games consoles, ipad / tablets, ipods / mp3 players, sat navs, and televisions. CompareMyMobile.com says it is always looking to compare new items. "The recycling market changes daily, and we will move with it." (Ashley Turner, Marketing Director)

The process at CompareMyMobile.com takes less than five minutes to find the best price, and consumers can even recycle broken devices and still get paid. However, most recyclers provide a working and non-working price.

Although it is nice to own a new phone and trade an old one for cash, CompareMyMobile.com says that not damaging the environment is their goal in educating the UK about recycling handsets. Owning the most up-to-date, most stylish, trendiest mobile phone is fun, but people should consider how they are contributing to the problems in UK landfills and to the adverse affect on the environment.

Most people do not realize phones are made of some of the most hazardous toxins known to mankind. Contained within the circuitry and displays of a mobile phone are some extremely toxic substances, such as copper, lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead and beryllium (a carcinogen linked to cancer). These hazardous materials leach into the atmosphere when mobile phones are dumped into UK landfills. Also, toxins from improperly discarded mobile phones leach into the ground and pollute the water table.

Not only do previous owners of mobile phones benefit by receiving cash for what they once considered trash, the environment and people in third world countries are beneficiaries as well. When old phones end up in landfills, hazardous substances inside these gadgets pollute the earth and environment. Fortunately, cash provides an incentive to recycle old phones, keeping them out of landfills and placing usable ones in the hands of people who need them.

Phones that can be refurbished are resold to people in developing countries. When the UK decide to trade in mobile phones for cash, they are helping the environment and their fellowman in third world countries who now have access to a sophisticated gadget at an affordable price. In addition, the refurbishing and recycling process provides jobs for their citizens.

Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones are now available to residents of third world countries at a much reduced price, dramatically improving communication channels worldwide. Phones that are completely non-working go through a careful recycling process where parts are removed and then reused in other items such as jewelry, plastic wares and more.

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