UK mobile recycling cities ranked
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 13:51:44
A new report from O2 has revealed the top cities in the UK for mobile recycling rates, with Bristol beating out its rivals to take pole position.
The network provider, which also operates a phone recycling service, said that it has now paid out more than £100 million to people who are interested in selling their old mobile phones, since it first started offering this opportunity back in 2009.
Residents of Bristol are ahead of all other areas of the UK when it comes to phone recycling, with 1 phone in 82 being sold at the end of its lifespan. Interestingly, the level of mobile recycling found in London is much lower, with 1 in every 155 devices being disposed of sustainably.
The iPhone family remains the UK’s most popular device to recycle, accounting for 41 per cent of all handsets that passed through the system last year. This is not just because Apple’s range enjoys high sales figures, but also because it retains much of its value and can still be worth hundreds of pounds, even if it is two or more years old.
People recycle old phones because the environmental benefit is boosted thanks to the availability of cold, hard cash for unwanted devices. This money can then be used to offset the cost of upgrading to a new model.
Study spokesperson, Ronan Dunne, said that the money raised through mobile recycling was not just being provided to consumers, but also being used to support socially conscious schemes across the UK.
But, of course, while the current recycling rates for mobiles are an improvement on what they were when O2 set up this initiative, there is still a long way to go until the majority of unwanted old handsets are disposed of responsibly.
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