The majority of people still just throw their mobile phone away or leave them sitting around in draws. We are doing what we can to raise the awareness of responsible mobile disposal and recycling but its proving difficult.

Mazuma’s TV advert campaign offering cash for old mobiles went a long way towards raising public awareness of mobile recycling and we saw an increase in the number of searches carried out relating to mobile recycling around the time these launched, however, spreading the word is not easy.

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Its official, January is the nation’s most broke month.

Following an expensive Christmas and new year the January blues often get to the best of us, we do what we can to keep the cost down but there is no doubt an extra few hundred pounds at an time will come in useful, especially now.
Most of us don’t realise the potential value we can unlock using some of the unused items laying around in our homes, some tech savvy mobile users or gadget freaks are often sat on little goldmines. Depending on the make and model of your handset you could trade it in for up to £200, even more on occasion, the opportunity to profit when you cash in phones is both real and significant.

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We have received a number of emails recently from people who have attempted to sell their mobile phones for cash, however, when they payment has arrived in their account or the cheque arrived they are disappointed to realise that they have been paid the broken rate for their handset and not the higher working rate. This is something that can easily be avoided, so we put together a basic guide to getting the right rate for your mobile below:

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Have you ever wondered what to do with a broken phone? If so then you probably do not realise that you have the option of recycling broken mobile phones for cash!

Mobile phones break, anyone who has had one for any length of time will no doubt have experienced a frustrating breakage, often at the most inconvenient of times. Be it the roller ball on your Blackberry stopping scrolling or a broken phone screen. As a rule most broken mobile phones are not economical to repair professionally, especially because many breakages are to older phones with significant amounts of wear and tear (meaning even if you fix one issue another will not be far away). The one exception to this rule is if you have a broken phone charger which, for most mainstream handsets, can be easily replaced.

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The term electronic waste is used to refer to more modern waste items such as used computers, mobile phones and old MP3 players which are often some of the most complicated items to recycle. Traditional recycling of items such as paper is easy in comparison as the most challenging element is removing additional “extras” that find their way into the recycling pot and cannot actually be recycled, however, in retrospect this poses a very small problem, for example, stapes and paperclips can easily be removed from the “recycling pot” by use of powerful magnets.

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The number of people interested in recycling their mobile phone handset and cashing in at the same time is growing. Mazuma was probably the first name most people heard of when it came to recycling a mobile and their TV campaign went a long way towards raising awareness of mobile phone recycling, however, there is much more to do here.
We are making an effort to increase the general public’s awareness of responsible mobile phone recycling, at the moment the majority of people still simply throw their phones in the bin or leave them laying around in a draw for years after they have finished with them.

When you recycle your mobile its important to take some steps to protect yourself and the new handset owner, you might just be passing them some old numbers but at worse you might be handing over personal photos or subjecting the new owner to mobile phone spy software!
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There are so many ways that you can get money for your old mobile, many people have a draw full of old phones which basically equates to a draw full of cash. It seems like one of the fastest growing types of online business is one which conserns itself with recycling old mobile phones.
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What to do before you sell your mobile

If you are upgrading your mobile phone and looking for a way to properly dispose of your current one, it is strongly recommended that you recycle it rather than throw it into a bin. Simply throwing a phone away is strongly discouraged, as it will end up in a landfill leaking poisonous toxins into the earth. There are a couple of different ways to recycle a mobile phone. You can pass it on to a friend, donate it or sell it to a recycling company for a substantial amount of cash. Regardless of what method you choose to dispose of your old mobile phone, there are a few things you should do before getting rid of your mobile phone.

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Android powered handsets are still quite new and still seen as something taken up by early adopters of technology. This said it might seem premature talk about selling your handset (Which you have had a few months) and at this time the thought of recycling an android handset (effectively destroying it) might seem ridiculous.

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For more detail on phone recycling for cash see this updated post

While it is clear that throwing mobile phones away will result in permanent damage to the environment and potential contamination of our drinking water, less has been made of the reasons why the mobile phone recycling process is so difficult.

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