Recycling Companies
Recycle Your Old Mobile - Recycling companies
There are many internet based mobile phone recycling companies that have been set up to buy your old devices for cash with the aim of reusing them. These companies that recycle old mobiles will pay anything between £1 and £250 in cash for your old mobiles depending on the age, make and condition. Whilst older devices will not fetch a lot when recycled most mobile phones have a cash value that they can be recycled for.
Although the only prices shown on this site are for working mobile phones with a charger most of these recycling companies will offer some payment for non-working mobile phones and mobile phones with missing chargers or accessories. It is normally quite easy to find the reduced price with it often shown on the same page that you click through to.
Why sell my mobile phone to a recycling company?
Selling mobile phones to a recycling company is good from an environmental perspective as it ensures the reuse of materials and resources. Mobile phones contain harmful substances including Cadmium, Rhodium, Palladium, Beryllium and Lead, not to mention Nickel, Mercury, Manganese, Lithium, Zinc, Arsenic, and Copper. Simply disposing of old or unwanted mobile phones can be harmful to the environment as there is the potential for considerable toxic contamination caused by these substances leaking into the surrounding environment if disposed of incorrectly.
What happens to my mobile phone once I sell it to a recycling company?
Once you send us your old mobile phone, the first thing we check is its condition. Those in working order are recycled and sent to developing countries in Asia and Africa where they're reused. This is a good way of helping the environment, utilises natural resources and ensures people in developing countries have access to mobile phone technology. The landline infrastructure in many developing countries is often in disrepair or nonexistent and new mobile phones are expensive, so mobile phone recycling helps people afford a mobile phone, providing much needed communication. Mobile phones that are not in working order, or are broken beyond repair, have their useful components extracted and these are recycled.
Before selling your old mobile phone to a recycling company:
- Remove SIM and data cards.
- We only require your mobile phone so please do not send boxes, chargers, data cables or any other accessories.