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Recycling Ipods and Mobile Phones

Recycling a mobile phone or any other gadget that you are no longer using is far better than just throwing it away or leaving it lying around. The first benefit, which is the most obvious, is to get some money in return for your old, unused mobile phone. The newer models will bring you more money.

Choosing to recycle your old IPod is clearly a way of helping the environment. Even if your mobile phone or other gadgets do not work, you can still recycle them as their parts can be reused. By reusing old parts, new resources and fossil fuels need not be used in order to produce brand new parts.

Recycling an old phone is similar to having it reused. In developing countries, old phones are refurbished and then sold. This is useful for those who cannot afford to buy themselves brand new mobile phones. While this method not only benefits the environment, saving it from pollution, it also helps to build a more advanced and widespread telecommunications infrastructure.

You might be one of those people who get a new phone every two years, as per your mobile phone contract. If so, then your old phone becomes a spare phone and then slowly forgotten and unused.

It is now, at this instance, that you need to find it and hand it over to a recycling service. FoneHub, is one particularly good mobile recycling service. First specify the model of your phone and then look for the quoted price of the phone you are recycling. Some websites might even ask you for an IMEI number. This is usually found under the battery.

Apart from recycling your old phone, you can also send in hands free kits, Bluetooth headsets and even travel chargers.