July 7, 2010

How Urban Mining Works

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4. You don’t want to throw it away…

Furthermore, there are also two very good green reasons to recycle your phone. Firstly, there are only so many materials in the world, and if we continue to consume them, then eventually there will simply be no more of them. While microchips and green technology are changing the way that we live, we only have finite resources with which to build them. Secondly, if you do dispose of your phone or your mp3 player, then it will simply be adding to the mountains of waste that are disposed of every year. All the better, then, to feed it back into the system!