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Articles tagged with: Recycling and Personal
Telenor Launches Mobile Phone Recycling Programme
Norway's Telenor has announced that it is introducing a buyback/recycling scheme for mobile phones. According to Telenor's calculations at least four million used mobile phones are lying around collecting dust in Norwegian homes. Presently 82 per cent of Norwegian households have at least one mobile phone extra that they are not using. It is only a dismal 12 per cent of consumers that recycle mobile phones. Since mobile phones are not being returned for recycling, mobile phone manufacturers are forced to extract new materials, in stead of just using the resources already available in used mobile phones. more
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Two Million Phones Recyled in 2008 by Regenersis
Regenersis, Europe's largest mobile phone recycling and reuse provider, has announced that they processed more than 2 million handsets for reuse and recycling in 2008. more
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Making it Easier to Recycle Mobile Phones
..ing the recovery of hazardous and valuable components during the recycling process. However, manual disassembly is a time-consuming and thus costly process, in terms of either financial or social impact," the researchers say. They have no more