Sustainability
Video: Recycling Nokia phones in action
By Mike on 08 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – Today’s release of Nokia’s global recycling survey is sure to raise some eco eyebrows, with only 3% of us recycling our old phones and almost half of us just leaving our phones of yesteryear to rot a drawer at home.
Granted the situation isn’t going to change overnight, but even if the process of recycling phones lodges in our collective consciousnesses, and if it’s convenient (Nokia’s We Recycle scheme is growing with over 5,000 global drop-off points) the eco effects would be immensely positive.
Nokia has posted a pair of short videos to help push the concept, the cooler of the two being the first mini movie showing the actual process that old phones go through at one of the 80 recycling plants Nokia works with.
What do you think about mobile phone recycling and the processes involved. Is it practical and easy enough for you to consider recycling your old phone?
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Tags | conversations, Eco, Nokia, Old phone, recycle, We recycle
July 8th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Only 3% of People Recycle Their Old Mobile Phones
A survey carried out by Nokia has reported that only 3% of people recycle their mobi…
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July 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Personally, I never recycle my phones. I keep all of them in my “phones museum” at home.
Anyway, it’s not easy to find Nokia Recycle center in Canada. What people normally do here is go to electronic recycling center, funded by local government (it’s not for mobile phones, but all other gadgets).
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July 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Mike, if you drive N kilometres to go shopping or go watch your football team playing, so why can’t you do the same for taking your mobile to a recycle center? !
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