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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

IPhone And Nokia Are The Most Recycled Mobile Phones In The UK

By Jake Stevens

According to a recent report, the most recycled phones in the UK are made by Nokia and Apple.

The two brands made nine of the places in the top ten list of the models most often sold to recycling companies, according to the Telegraph, with the iPhone 3G 16gb, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and 6300 among them. Samsung just made the list with its S5230 Tocco Lite taking tenth place.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the iPhone and Nokia's slide handsets have been some of the most popular phones in Britain in recent years, and when you consider the statistic that consumers who value style are more likely to upgrade their phone more often, it is easy to see how this has resulted in many more of these models being recycled. Their rise in popularity coincides perfectly with their rising rate of being sold off to recycling companies, and in just this year alone it is estimated that over a million people in the UK will buy a new phone.

In the past, the only way to make money on an old phone was to possibly trade it in or exchange it for a partial discount on a new model. Now, mobile phone recycling companies, can easily be found all over the Internet and will offer customers cash for their unused phones - up to 80 for the Nokia N95 or 200 for the third generation iPhone.

Now, to help you make sense of all the different recycling options available to you, sites like Compare and Recycle help you find the best price for your old phone by listing more than 20 different companies and the price that they would pay. They also make sure that all of the companies they recommend deal with all of the parts in an eco-friendly and responsible way: many old phones are refurbished and sold in India, China and Africa, or even given to charity, and any parts that cannot be reused are disposed of properly.

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