Environmental Tip of the Week: Envirofone

Traditionally only larger charities have been able to make money through collecting old mobile phones for recycling. Now you can support any of the 183,000 charities in the UK by recycling your old mobile phone in partnership with the Charities Trust. For each phone traded with envirofone Envirofone you receive cash and £3.00 is donated to any UK Registered Charity.  See how it works here

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[Lucy Evans]

It no surprise that companies like envirofone in the UK have become interested in mobile phone recycling. In Japan Eco-System Recycling have found that a ton of discarded mobile phones can produce up to 150 grams of gold, whereas ore from a gold mine produces on average 5 grams per ton.