Every year Americans throw away upwards of £80 million dollars’ worth of copper, gold, silver, palladium and platinum by junking old cell phones.

On an equivalent scale that also happens in the UK and across Europe

They are all called “Precious Metals” for a very good reason, sure they are worth money but only because we have to mine deep into the ground to get them!

And at what human cost!

How irresponsible is it to simply throw your old mobile phone into the trash when there are companies such as Secure Data Recycling willing to recycle them for continued use or for the precious metal content.

One issue that we do not understand is when people upgrade their phone contracts, how many times have you been offered the chance to take your old phone into the local store or have it collected for recycling.

In our experience never, so come on Vodafone, Carphone Warehouse, Orange and all, contact Secure data Recycling and we will show you what needs to be done.