If you've got mobile phones hanging out of your pockets, why not recycle one or two of them? Tesco are now offering a recycling scheme via its online website, tescomobilerecycle.com.
The process itself couldn't be much easier, you select which handset you have and once your details are collected, Tesco send out a prepaid envelope, you simply put your phone in, send it back and await your reward which could be up to £70 worth of gift vouchers.
Should you be wondering why you should recycle your old phone instead of throwing it in the bin, here are a few reasons Tesco have provided:
- Mobile phones are on average only used for 12 to 24 months until they are replaced by new handsets. As a result, over 100 million mobile phones are unused in Europe every year, and that number is growing.
- Do you know it's illegal to put your old handsets in household waste?
- There are estimated to be 66 million old and unused mobile phones in the UK
- Less than 10% of these are recycled
- Around 24.5 million phones are upgraded each and every year ….which would mean the "phone mountain" is potentially increasing year on year by at least 17.9 million phones!
- Phones can add to the to the burden of landfill and potential toxins from batteries and plastics can leak into the ground
- Every phone can either be re-used or recycled
- Re-use of phones is better for the environment – no new raw materials are required, and the life of the phone is extended
Head on over to the Tesco Mobile Recycle website and see which rewards you may qualify for.
