Recycling is the hottest topic on the planet right now, it is huge business. We can all jump on the band wagon and have a piece of the pie with our old mobile phones. You might not know but many of these are worth up to 250 pounds! Take some of the touch screen phones that have been out for a while, many of them are fetching good money when recycled. In a lot of cases you will get more for recycling your phone than trading it in to a high street store or selling in an online auction!
Take the Toshiba TGO1 costs, Originally a £500 pay go handset you can now buy it new for under £150 with Orange. To recycle the Toshiba tgo1 you will get at least £90! That's 60% of its current store value! If you shop around online with the Foreign recycling stores you can get up to $300 for it. With the current exchange rate that is around £187 for the handset (exchange taken at $1.60 - £1 Feb 2010). Looking at this further, there is money to get made in buying this handset on pay go with the sole purpose of recycling it and making up to £37! If you are thinking of doing this, ensure you know prices prior to going out and buying the handset! You could actually organise to recycle the phone and buy it at the same time! Anyhow, the average person will recycle based on getting a contract mobile upgrade.
There are many other handset to look at which still have good value for recycling, so if you got a recent upgrade dig the old one out of the drawer! Take the Blackberry bold, you will get around £125+ for this. The iphone can fetch up to £250 when recycling! Nokias hold their money excellent, the N97 or N97 Mini will get you around £170, The E90 will get over £100 some of the Nokia 8800's will get you over the £100! The sony ericsson satio will get you around £150 and the W995 can go for £100!
What ever phone you have check online for mobile recycling and see who will give you the best price for your old or unwanted handset. 2 most popular sites are envirofone and mazumamobile. You could end up with enough money to have a small weekend break or a good night on the town while doing your bit for the environment!
