You probably have a spare mobile phone or two lying around in your house somewhere. You think you might need it, in case your current phone conks out. But truth be told, you will most probably buy a new phone if your current one goes bonkers.
According to Nokia, only 3% of mobile phone users recycle their devices. If every mobile phone user in the world recycles just one phone, it will translate to 240,000 tonnes of raw materials being saved and the reduction of green house gases equivalent to taking 4 million cars off the road.
Nokia is running a “Recycle A Phone; Adopt A Tree” programme in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. With every phone sent in for recycling, customers will receive a tree in their name planted under the NEWTrees initiative – a collaboration among Nokia, World Wildlife Fund Indonesia, and Equinox Publishing, where Nokia has committed funds towards the planting of 100,000 trees in Indonesia.
Nokia Singapore brought a group of journalists to the TES-AMM recycling plant in Tuas to show how mobile phones are being recycled to their raw materials. Here’s how it is done!
For more information on how to recycle your mobile phone, visit www.nokia.com/werecycle.
