Today along with plastic, nuclear and chemical waste mankind is facing problem with e-waste. The main culprit of the e-waste is the mobile phones. Now the need of the time is recycling of the mobile phones. E-waste can be combined with computers and other electronic devices, but mobile phones are giving a strong competition among them. Every landfills and city dumps are filled with mobile phones that carry deadly hazardous materials like chromium, lead and nickel. They are capable of causing serious damage to our environment and underground water. Many people throw their mobile phones away after they become old and damaged. This is because they are not aware of the recycling of mobile phones.
As far as recycling is concerned, a survey reveals only below 3% of the world population gives their mobile phones for recycling. The long lists of buyers get richer when compared to the list of donors for recycling. Recycling simply means extracting the materials from the mobile phones and brings them to use again instead of leaving them as hazardous waste material. Many people are unaware that the copper in the mobile phones and chargers are recyclable. The growing value of copper in market is making it a valuable one.
One ton of old mobile phone devices can yield up to 100 kilogram of copper which is more than from its own ore. The scope of recycling mobile phones is necessary due to the lack of its resources. Today mobile users are increasing rapidly due to its newer models. Recycling copper reduces the impact of mining copper and keeps the cost of it in a set level. Mobile phones are made from all valuable materials; these require energy and natural resources to extract them. Mobile phone recycling also reduces the emission of green house gas in the atmosphere.
Lead is one of the most threatening chemical in the circuit boards of mobile phones. It is considered as a problematic metal throughout the world. Lead is used in the circuit boards for soldering. These create cancer, abnormalities by affecting the central nervous system and immune system and affect the kidneys too. They can be disposed properly when given to the recyclers. Instead of keeping our mobile phones unused in drawer, we can give them for recycling and save the basic raw materials needed to manufacture them. The housing around the mobile phones can be used to make park decks; saxophones and so on... focus all your attention in recycling them in a charitable way. So say bye to pollution and environmental impacts created by mobile phones. Let