Most people do not know that mobile phones contain toxic metals and hazardous substances that can potentially harm the environment and can affect the existence of living organisms such as animals, plants, and human beings. Mobile phone recycling can therefore be deemed an environmental conservation procedure that offers financial and social benefits as well as being another way of protecting the environment against potential pollution.

There are many companies that have started mobile phone recycling to help protect the earth from pollution similar to fonebank.ie but not many that offer such competative prices while at the same time being able to offer years of mobile phone recycling experience and knowledge. In view of the above facts, it’s necessary to create awareness of mobile phones recycling to help, in even a small way, to prevent electronic waste from mobile phones harming the environment.

There are 50 million mobile phone subscribers in UK. Every year around one billion mobile phones are sold through out the world. 50,000 recycled mobile phones can yield around one kilogram of gold. Mobile phones contain numerous harmful substances such as Lead, Cadmium, Beryllium, that needs to be disposed of in the correct manner. Currently less than 20% of unwanted mobile phones are recycled which implies millions of phones are lying in drawers and cupboards waiting to be recycled in the UK.

By selling your old mobile phones you can earn yourself extra cash, help preserve the environment and be safe in the knowledge that old mobile phone is being put to good use either by being reused or by being melted down to redeem precious metals that can then be reused in other products with diminishing further the worlds natural resources. So instead of leaving your old mobile phones lying around click on Sell Mobile Phone and find out how much yours is worth. We are sure that fonebank.ie offers more for your old mobile phones than when you trade in mobile phones at high street mobile phone shops.