It’s been lying in a drawer, sad and neglected for a few months now waiting for me to get round to sending it off for recycling and after recently coming across the newly revised website, Mopay via Hippyshopper, I think the time has finally arrived to send my mobile to a new home.
Mopay offers a quick and easy service or turning your old phone into cash and helps raise money for charity in the process. For every mobile they receive, Mopay will donate an extra 10% of the sale of your phone to your chosen charity. You also have the option of donating anything from 10-100% out of the money they pay for the phone to charity. The site is dead easy to use, you select the manufacturer and then from the images pick out the model you want to recycle. They accept around 2000 different phones, my old Nokia is worth £18.28 which when you take into account the additional 10% donation means a total of £20.11 can go to charity. Couple that with the knowledge that it is being recycled rather than dumped and its more than enough incentive for me to get off my backside and sort it out.
In the UK 1700 phones are thrown away every hour! This is crazy as mobiles contain several valuable materials and components including silver which can be extracted and re-used. Some also contain hghly toxic substances such as cadmium which if it goes into landfill could potentially end up leaching into soil and reaching groundwater.
Oh and you don’t get anything extra for it but they also accept chargers for recycling so if you’ve switched to a new manufacturer, send that off to.
