Environment
Don’t dump it, recycle it
By James on 14 May 2008
USA - Nokia USA has come up with a new initiative to save old mobiles from the landfill and instead recycle them and conserve natural resources.
Dubbed We Recycle the process is super simple and we reckon will prove really popular.
Users simply log onto We Recycle, enter their information and a postage paid return label is generated. Then, simply stick the device in an envelope, stick on the label and send it off where Nokia will strip it down, recycling the bits that can be reused and disposing of the ones that can’t.
Writing about it in PCMag.com, Steven Volynets summed up with “Yes,
it’s that simple”. And, having had a look ourselves, we have to agree. Throwing phones in the bin has always bothered me, which is why I have a substantial collection of devices gathering dust in a cupboard. I have to say I’m pretty impressed with this initiative, though wish we had the same service in the UK. So I had a look, and sure enough, there’s a widely unpublicized service available to UK users which enables them to do the same thing.
We’ll be looking further into what happens to the devices once they get
back to Nokia, so keep your eyes peeled for updates on that.
Right now I’m off to do up some Freepost labels and send off my old devices. I may be some time.
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- Reuse or recycle
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- Nokia We Recycle - The recycling process in action
Tags | Eco, Environment, Nokia, Nokia USA, recycle, We recycle
May 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Here in the Philippines, Nokia has a similar program.
They call it Take-Back point where they encourage users with old/unused handsets to give it back to nokia for proper disposal.
check it here: http://migs.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/nokia-going-green/
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July 18th, 2008 at 12:45 am
I have been looking online for thirty minutes now trying to figure out how to recycle my nokia. There is plenty of talk about it but I can’t find how to actually do it. Where do I log on to “we recycle”??? I tried to find a recycle point near me and the page came up blank. I tried three times! I would like to drop it off or mail it in. Maybe I’m looking in all the wrong places, I don’t know. But I certainly hope that’s it. It should not be this hard.
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July 18th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Stephenie, if you are located in the US then please go here:
http://www.nokiausa.com/A4761433
and fill in the form and it will populate a postage-paid return label for you.
Markus
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July 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
There is a technical problem in the site - the link to find your nearest recycling point isn’t working and they are on it now. Thanks Stephanie for pointing this out to us.
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July 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
here is working link to Recycle my Nokia http://www.nokia.com/A41041087
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