Video: Recycling Nokia phones in action

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.

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Old Nokias ripe for eco harvesting

INTERNATIONAL – Platinum. Gold. Copper. Turns out your old Nokia is an eco treasure trove plum for plundering. In fact, recycling your retired handset could mean more saxophones, kettles and dental fillings (not so great) for all of us, without having to bother Mother Earth for yet more raw materials. That is if we all get stuck in, and start recycling our old phones. See, Nokia has today published a global consumer survey on recycling, having interviewed 6,500 people in 13 countries, and the results are pretty eye-opening with only 3% of us recycling our redundant mobiles.

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Recycling everywhere

UGANDA, Africa – Keeping an eye on the environment doesn’t just mean sorting the waste in countries where its produced most. Nokia’s take-back recycling scheme has just expand into Uganda in East Africa, the fifth country in as many months to introduce the scheme in Africa.

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Don’t dump it, recycle it

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.

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Nokia N95 garners Greenpeace kudos

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The breakneck acceleration in eco-savvy electronics prompted a Greenpeace mission to hunt out the greenest gadgets available during 2007.