Mobile phone recycling
If you’re interested in earning cash by upgrading your mobile phone handset, choose mobile phone recycling with Fonebank and get cash in 2 working days.
Why recycle mobile phones with Fonebank?
Currently in the UK there are more than 90 million mobile phones, many set aside as people upgrade to the increasing number of new mobile phones coming onto the market.
Whilst encouraging mobile phone users to buy the latest mobile phones, we also believe in helping the environment, so want to ensure old phones are recycled properly. Unfortunately less than 10% are recycled, indicating that most are being left unused in cupboards and drawers, and that’s a lot of mobile phones!
E-waste of mobile phones and other electronics can harm the environment as they contain harmful substances such as Cadmium, Rhodium, Palladium, Beryllium and Lead, not to mention Nickel, Mercury, Manganese, Lithium, Zinc, Arsenic, and Copper. Hence the importance of mobile phone recycling.
Disposing of your old or unwanted mobile phones into landfills and municipal waste can generate considerable toxic gases. These gases spoil the soil’s nutrients and water tables, so in order to save our environment from such hazards it's essential to recycle in a safe way.
How to recycle mobile phone with Fonebank?
It’s easy and simple to recycle mobile phones and Fonebank accept those that are fully or partly damaged as well as unwanted phones in good working condition. We offer a hassle-free process to recycling mobile phone handsets.
You can obtain an instant quote before trading in your mobile phone using your own envelope to simply post your unwanted handsets to us. Having received your mobile phone, the condition is checked and a cheque despatched.
3 simple steps to recycling a mobile phone for cash
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Get a quote by:
a. Clicking on the manufacturer of your mobile phone from the list above and selecting your model
or
b. Entering the model into the search box
- Fill in the order form, and send your mobile phone in an envelope
- Receive a cheque from us in 2 days
Before sending handsets to mobile phone recycling centre…
- Remove SIM and data cards
- Only the mobile phone is required
- Do not send box, charger, data cables or other accessories
Great prices for mobile phone recycling
Use Fonebank to trade in and recycle mobile phones, make good money with fast payment facilities.
With so many recycling companies, why use Fonebank?
We pay competitive prices, simply and quickly and you're helping us to help the environment. We care about e-waste, and mobile phones are one of the world's largest electrical waste concerns, a problem that is growing rapidly. You can help the environment too by making the decision to recycle for cash. Fonebank ensures that recycled phones are either put to reuse or their component parts recycled or destroyed properly.
Don't delay, start recycling your mobile phones today. Take them from those cupboards and drawers, because if we all do this, then collectively it will make a difference.
Use Fonebank to trade in and recycle your mobile phones and get cash now!
What kind of treatment do these old phones receive at Fonebank?
Once we receive your unwanted handsets for recycling we'll reuse or recycle them. The condition of the mobile phone is checked and, if it's found to be in working condition, then it'll be sent to developing countries like Asia and Africa for reuse. This is a good way of helping the environment and optimising the use of natural resources, as well as ensuring those less fortunate have the chance of experiencing mobile phone technology. The landline infrastructure in many under-developed countries is in a state of disrepair or non-existent, and new mobile phones are expensive, so mobile recycling activities helps those who can't afford a new mobile phone.
Non-working phones or those broken beyond repair will have vital and useful components, which can be extracted for reuse. Such phones are put to mechanical or chemical treatment, which means they've reached the end of their life. A mechanical process is where the mobile is dismantled and its parts separated physically, whilst in chemical processing the metals and valuable materials, gold, silver and platinum and even plastic, are extracted for reuse.
More information about mobile phone recycling
Mobile phone recycling is helping reduce our carbon footprint. Researchers have analysed CO2 emissions from the production of goods and services such as TV, videos, stereos and phones and it’s creating a 35kg carbon footprint. So mobile phone recycling does make sense and should not be ignored.
Our customer support services will promptly answer your queries and complaints are welcome. Please click here to send us feedback on our phone recycling services.