Mobile mountains
With mobiles becoming a fashion item, rapid advances in new technology and constant offers of upgrades, mobile phones are being discarded more and more quickly. There is pressure on manufacturers to recycle the discarded phones, which have been estimated in Europe to use in excess of 100 million a year! Shoppers are also looking to more environmentally friendly purchases.

Mosquito nets to Personal alarms

There are other current phone recycling schemes. The Body Shop are transforming phones into personal alarms for women under the threat of domestic violence. Donate an old mobile to Oxfam and it will be worth a donation of £5 or more, or enough to buy a mosquito net to protect against malaria and at Tesco’s supermarket you will be giving a donation of £5 to the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).

Bernara

August 2005

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