UK phone losses analysed
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 11:26:48
O2 Recycle has released figures which suggest that Brits are particularly likely to lose their old mobile phones or other gadgets when they are out and about, ditching the potential to reclaim cash and help the environment in the process.
A study of 2000 people found that 33 per cent of UK mobile owners do not even take the time to look for the gadgets they have misplaced, either leaving them unfound at home or lounging in a lost property box at a restaurant, train station or taxi company.
Six per cent of people with insurance actually claimed in the event of losing their phone, which suggests that Brits are quite casual about the mobiles they use, even if they could be making back significant sums of money by recycling their handsets when they are no longer useful.
Interestingly, the report found that people in Scotland are the most conscious about the whereabouts of their mobiles while people in the north of England are more likely to lose their gadgets while they are out and about.
Spokesperson, Chrism Gamlin, said that if people did not look after their handsets they would not be able to sell them on at the end of their contract and then recoup some of their costs in the process.
As such, he sees the loss of mobile phones as simply leaving money lying around. O2 Recycle gives people the opportunity to turn their old phones into cash, with profits going to help young people set up charitably funded organisations across the UK.
Hopefully more unclaimed mobiles which have been lost and left unattended in public places will make their way to phone recycling companies, after every effort has been made to reunite the device with its proper owner, so that money is not being wasted.
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