Its possible to actually profit from your old broken phone
Written by Sarah Smooth
Sell off or perhaps Recycle Your Damaged Telephone Ever thought about what to do with a ruined cell phone? If that's so then you probably don't realise that you have a choice of recycling destroyed mobile phone devices for hard cash! Mobiles break, anyone who has ever had one for any period of time will no doubt have experienced an irritating breakage, normally at the most inconvenient of times. Whether it is the roller ball on your Blackberry preventing scrolling or a broken mobile phone display screen. Usually most damaged mobile phones are not economical to repair professionally, especially because many breakages happen to be to older phones with significant amounts of wear and tear (meaning even if you fix one issue another will not be far away). The one exception to this rule is if you have a broken phone charger which, for most mainstream handsets, can be easily replaced. While frustrating and at times even infuriating there is some saving grace if you hang onto your broken handset. Sell your broken phone for cash The selling of broken mobile phones is becoming an industry of its own; people are making their livings trading phones with broken screens or dodgy microphones so rather than worrying about how to fix a broken phone why not consider recycling it for cash? This site goes into great detail explaining the benefits and rational as to why you should consider recycling your mobile phone and the important of responsible disposal for the environment and our own safety, however, you might not have realised that these options are still available to you if your mobile phone handset is broken! Companies like Cash4Phones are just as keen to buy an old broken mobile phone as they are a new top of the range one. Usually you will find when selling a broken handset you will get slightly less than you would if it were in a perfect working conditions but you can still do the right thing by the environment, and from a more selfish standpoint, cash in considerably. At the time of writing a broke Nokia N95 is worth nearly £50 at Cash4Phones, having had a quick look round they seem to be one of the better recycling options on the market in terms of getting your money fast and also making sure the handset received is disposed of or recycled responsibly. It’s worth mentioning at this stage that you could privately sell a broken phone quite easily and ebay would be the most obvious option if you wanted to do this online, selling on your old handset to someone who is going to dissect it and use it as spares or refurbish it and sell it on is as good a form of recycling as any and someone may well end up with a nice functional handset by the time the repair work has been carried out.
The UKs mobile phone recycling organisation can provide advice on the best way to recycle your broken mobile phone.
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Sarah is an environmental activist who specialises in the recycling of new technologies and chemicals, an environmental and time graduate in the calss of 2007.
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