This may sound frustrating but only 3 per cent of the mobiles reach the mobile phone recycling centre as millions of rejected mobile phones and other old devices lay unattended at the households. As revealed by a recent survey, 74% of people have not yet heard about the term “mobile recycling”.
From the environmental point of view it is utmost important to recycle mobile phones but unfortunately most of the people are still unaware about this concept and even if they know they don’t know how to recycle. Mobile giant Nokia has taken initiatives by offering service points across the world where you can drop off your mobile phones.
In one of the Nokia’s recycling centers in Holland, mobile phones are put on belt conveyors after removing the batteries.
The phones are then moved on rollers to collect metals like copper, palladium, platinum, gold and plastics. The phones are crushed to bits and bites and the materials extracted through recycling are used in furniture fittings, musical parts, media players etc.
The workers at the recycling units use distilled water to separate the precious metals from the materials that split into innumerous pieces during recycling. The experts then sort out the substances and extract pure form of those metals by further processing.
Another function of the recycling units is to separate the working mobiles and refurbish them adding more life to them for further use. These mobiles are resent to the market to be purchased by new users.
From the environmental point of view it is utmost important to recycle mobile phones but unfortunately most of the people are still unaware about this concept and even if they know they don’t know how to recycle. Mobile giant Nokia has taken initiatives by offering service points across the world where you can drop off your mobile phones.
In one of the Nokia’s recycling centers in Holland, mobile phones are put on belt conveyors after removing the batteries.
The phones are then moved on rollers to collect metals like copper, palladium, platinum, gold and plastics. The phones are crushed to bits and bites and the materials extracted through recycling are used in furniture fittings, musical parts, media players etc.
The workers at the recycling units use distilled water to separate the precious metals from the materials that split into innumerous pieces during recycling. The experts then sort out the substances and extract pure form of those metals by further processing.
Another function of the recycling units is to separate the working mobiles and refurbish them adding more life to them for further use. These mobiles are resent to the market to be purchased by new users.
