Mobile Phone Recycling to Aid Children's Charity
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 12:05:04
Kids Company, a children's charity that provides meals for the most underprivileged children who might otherwise go hungry, is harnessing a major national mobile phone recycling campaign in the UK to help raise money for its cause.
According to Kids Company's latest statistics, 17,000 children are deemed to require feeding every day in the UK, which is more than twice as many as were affected last year, highlighting the severity of the circumstances caused by the ongoing economic crisis.
Now Orange and T-Mobile, part of the Everything Everywhere network family, will be collecting old mobile phones for the Mobile Meal initiative operated by Kids Company.
The initiative is looking to raise a minimum of a million pounds for the cause and all of the unwanted handsets that are donated will be handled by mobile recycling company Regenersis. Under the scheme, the value of handsets will be recouped in order to be pumped into the charitable work.
Everything Everywhere spokesperson Andrew Coull explained that with over 700 retail outlets across the UK, the provider was in a good position to harvest thousands of unwanted old mobile phones from members of the British public.
He said that anyone who does have an unwanted old mobile phone will be making a real difference if they choose to recycle it via this scheme.
Every old mobile phone has some residual value, no matter what its age. This is because the materials used to produce them are precious and rare, so even if the device is no longer operational or up to date it will still have components that are of use.
While not everyone will choose to recycle their old mobile in order to donate to charity, if you sell your old mobile phone online you can do whatever you like with the proceeds.
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