It is hard to imagine a Christmas tree in the United Kingdom that did not have a few electronic devices under it on Christmas day. With all of these new devices hitting the market just in time for the holidays there will certainly be millions of used electronic devices being dumped into dressers and drawers around the United Kingdom. This is especially true for mobile phones, which are increasingly being replaced after just a year or two of use, making for literally hundreds of millions of used mobile phones. This has led to a variety of mobile phone recycling companies stepping up to fill the massive need to keep these phone from reaching a landfill where chemicals can leak out of the batteries and eventually leak into water supplies.
Recently sellmymobile.com put together a list to see which phones were the most popular ones to recycle. The site offers customers cash for their used mobile phones, especially if that phone is new enough to be re-used by someone else. What their study found was that the Nokia N97 is the phone most recycled by citizens in the United Kingdom. Even though the phone was only released earlier this year, people are quickly turning it in for cash, as the Nokia N97 was the only smartphone which made the top twenty on the list.
This could be an indictment on the phone itself or could be part of two emerging trends. Not only does this show that people are now replacing their phones even more quickly than expected, but that they are also more educated about how to recycle their phone.
News Source:- http://www.recycle.co.uk/
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