Recycling

Mobile phone recycling

Simply disposing of your mobile phone could be harmful to the environment due to potential toxic contamination caused by harmful substances present in old handsets leaking in to the environment. Peach Telecom strives to help the environment by reducing waste and recycling your old mobile phones.

A major aspect of our business is helping to prevent pollution of the environment by discarded mobile phones and accessories so speak to Peach now and ask about our services.

There are over four billion mobile phone handsets in the world today, and statistics show they are upgraded every 12 - 18 months, so please recycle your old mobile phone today.


 

WEEE Directive

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is now UK law. The legislation aims to make producers pay for the collection, treatment and recovery of waste electrical equipment. The regulations also mean that suppliers of equipment like high street shops and internet retailers must allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.

The amount of WEEE we throw away is increasing by around 5% each year, making it the fastest growing waste stream in the UK.

Much of the UK’s WEEE ends up in landfill, where the lead and other toxins it contains can cause soil and water contamination. This can have a harmful effect on natural habitat, wildlife and also human health.

Many electrical items that we throw away can be repaired or recycled. Recycling items helps to save our natural finite resources and also reduces the environmental and health risks associated with sending electrical goods to landfill.

Distributors of new electric and electronic equipment have a part to play in reducing the amount of waste going into landfill sites.

Recycling

Five Good Reasons

  1. Because it's good for the planet. It reduces the amount of rubbish going into landfills. Mobile phones contain poisonous elements such as lead, cadmium and beryllium that can damage wildlife and harm our health, so the fewer that enter landfills the better.
  2. It helps other people too. Often, mobile phones that are sold to recycling companies are sent to poorer countries. They are a vital link for people who've never had a phone before.
  3. To make a mobile phone uses up the equivalent energy of almost 40 gallons of petrol, so the more mobile phones that can be recycled the more we can conserve our dwindling energy resources.
  4. The mobile phone manufacturing industry generates over 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. That's an enormous carbon footprint that would be reduced if we could recycle phones a little more.
  5. Mobile phones contain metals such as gold, platinum and palladium. Although these are only in small quantities, it's estimated that there are around 80 million phones lying around, unused. That's a lot of precious metals that can be recycled, reducing the impact of mining for these metals on our environment.
     
 


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