There is an estimated 100 million phones lying idly in the UK, either gathering dust around the household or making their way to the landfills. As we all are aware of the harmful toxic contains of mobile phones like Cadmium, Lead, Brominated flame retardants and Beryllium. This article will guide you about what to do with your old mobile phones to restore safety of our planet in every way.
A yearly 15 million phones are replaced or upgraded in the UK only which means 1700 phones per minute! This results in a huge stockpile of rejected handsets, either gathering dust or even worse being thrown into the bins. Under this gloom situation, I have decided to dig out and sell my mobile phone to a recycling company that will bring in cash for me up to a maximum of 400 for each.
Sell Your Old Mobile Phone or Ipod for cash
An old mobile phone should be sold to a specialised mobile phone recycling company that would dispose your phone in the correct manner. This is not only beneficial for the environment, but also earns some extra money for you. An online recycling company can pay you up to 400 for each of your old mobile and Ipod sent by you.
Sell Your Phone to an Online Recycling Company
First, you should compare all the UK mobile phone recycling companies. For this, you can use the online facilities available for recycling your phones. There are several online companies in the UK specialising in mobile recycling business, where you sell your old handsets. Before entering into a deal, you should compare the different prices offered by each of these sites for your phones model and make. It’s worth comparing the prices as to make sure that you receive the best available price for your phone.
How Do the Recyclers Operate Online?
Mobile Phone Xchange, Fonebank, Money For Your Phone, Mazuma, GoPumpkin, Money4MyMobile, Royal Mail Simply Drop, Money4urMobile, EcoUrMobile, Boots Mobile Recycling, Envirofone etc., are some of the leading UK mobile recyclers providing online services to the customers.
Simply visit any of the sites mentioned above and type in or choose the model of the phone you intend to sell from the space provided on the site. If you accept the price offered by the recycling site, they will either send you a jiffy bag to send the phone or ask you to post your phone at their address.
Then, it’s time to relax and wait to receive payment either in a cheque or cash directly into your account. Some of the companies also offer additional benefits like shopping vouchers instead of cash, so it really makes sense to check before sending your phone.
Do Non-Working Handsets Worth Recycling?
Yes, non working phones are accepted by most of the recycling sites that may offer you between 10% 80% of its working price.
So once you decide to dig out your unused and obsolete phones for recycling, you can expect to make some good amount of cash for them by visiting the recycling websites.
Why can’t I just hit reply and type ‘yes’? Why do I need to phone up The AA call centre? I can’t be bothered. I don’t have time to give my life story to a (no doubt very nice) call centre agent.
But I would have agreed to the offer if I could have either typed ‘yes’ or visited a secure mobile web page to tape ‘yes’. But phone? And quote a reference? Get with the programme, AA! 
The AppNation conference will be held April 27 & 28 at the Moscone Convention center in San Francisco and 148Apps is a proud media sponsor. The agenda is shaping up to be a great one and this year, I’ll be moderating a panel called the App Rock Stars. For this panel, we’ll be talking with some of the people with the most app downloads out there. In total, the participants have over 100 million app downloads, and we’re going to find out how they did it. The panel line-up is scheduled to include: