50 Ways To Recycle Your Cell Phone

Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 28 Feb 2008 0:01

The folks at VoIP News have assembled a list of 50 ways you can recycle your cell phone. The list is fairly comprehensive, as it includes a number of different places that will put the phone to good use. All the manufacturers have some sort of recycling program available also. And, of course, you can sell it for money.

My favorite way to recycle a mobile phone is give it to someone who has lost or broken their phone. I’ve done this with a number of my older phones, and I feel good each time I do it.

If I can’t give a phone away for some reason, I take it into a Nokia office and drop it in the recycling kiosk they have set up. It’s a pretty painless process to drop the phone and accessories in. I feel confident that Nokia is doing the right thing with these old, discarded phones.

How do you recycle your old phones?

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8 Comments

  1. Comment by nicole

    can you repost that recycling link? id like to see where i can take them. thanks!

  2. Comment by PhoneBoy

    I don’t know how I screwed up the link, but it’s been fixed.

  3. Comment by Funny Man

    I have no idea how to recycle my cellphone because whenever its already damage I just set it aside and just placed it in a storage room . I doesnt bother to recycle anymore but if am using Nokia then I just get the charger and some of the accessories in it and give it to some of my friends.

  4. Comment by Sweet Blossom

    When my LG B2150 was on the verge of retirement,I simply sold it out.And when I lost interest in my “too old” Nokia 3220,I went to market,bought new covers and battery,clothed the phone into its “new apparels” and couriered it to one of my friends who was longing to have a phone.

  5. Comment by PhoneBoy

    @funny man: That’s my favorite way of recycling phones–giving it to someone who needs one.

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