Sell Mobile Phone for Cash

The are many benefits to recycling your mobile phone for cash

According to some studies, only 3 percent of mobile phone owners recycle their old phones when they upgrade to new models. This is unfortunate, because you can recycle your old mobile phone for cash, and do well for the environment at the same time.

Even better, doing so couldn’t be easier.

A large number of private companies in the UK pay cash for used phones. You can find these companies online at sites such as Fonebok.com, Envirofone.com, EarthMobile.com and MobilePhoneXchange.com. And that’s just a small list. Anyone who runs an Internet search for “recycling mobile phones for cash” will bring up several pages of online retailers who specialize in this business.

It’s possible to get solid money, too, for your now unwanted mobile phone. For a mobile phone that’s still in working condition, you can expect to fetch about 50 pounds. For a mobile that’s no longer working, you can still expect to earn about 20 pounds from online recycling companies.

And not only does recycling your phone make sense for your pocketbook, it’s good for the environment, too. Unwanted mobile phones are taking up too much space in our nation’s landfills. The old mobile phones often leak chemicals into the soil. This definitely isn’t good for the environment. By recycling your old mobile phone, you are doing your part to keep these chemicals away from our landfills.

So why aren’t more people selling their mobile phones for cash? Chalk it up to not knowing the facts.

A vast majority of mobile phone owners know next to nothing about recycling their old phones. In fact, a recent study said that 75 percent of mobile phone owners do not know how to recycle their old mobile phones.

Again, this is unfortunate. It’s also a bit hard to believe considering how many options mobile phone owners have for recycling their no longer wanted phones.

For example, many towns run their own electronics recycling days. Consumers can recycle their mobile phones during these days. Many charities would be happy to take on a functioning mobile phone. Owners merely have to contact them and drop them off.

And, of course, there are the private companies that not only recycle mobile phones, they send cash to their former owners.

These companies all work in much the same way. Consumers log onto their Web sites, punch in their unwanted mobile phone’s name and model and wait for a cash offer. Consumers can accept this offer or reject it and search a competing recycling site for a better one.
Once consumers accept the offer, they mail their old mobile phone – without its SIM card – to a recycling company, which then sends back the agreed-upon payment.

For consumers, it’s an extremely easy way to make some extra pocket change. For the environment, it’s a nice, green deed.

There have been some success stories when it comes to recycling mobile phones. For instance, one UK recycler recently passed $2 million worth of donations to charities thanks to the number of mobile phones it has recycled since 1999.

The message here is a clear one: Selling mobile phones for cash benefits everyone. It’s a far kinder act to the environment than is tossing an old mobile phone in the trash. And selling mobile phones for cash is a simple way to for consumers to earn a bit of extra money.

The hope here is that more consumers understand how important it is to recycle their mobile phones for money. About 80 percent of the parts of a mobile can be recycled. There’s no reason, then, for any consumer to make the mistake of tossing their unwanted mobile phones into the garbage.