LONDON, England - Since yesterday's story about recycling in India, and more pertinently, Ripul's comments and feedback on it, I've been thinking more about the whole area of phone recycling (and what I'm going to do with the bag of phones languishing in my cupboard). One thing I've come across previously (but not paid much attention to) are companies who will pay you good money for your old phone...

Motorola went green at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show with the W233 Renew. This candybar cell phone, headed for T-Mobile, is manufactured from recycled plastic bottles, and comes with a prepaid recycling envelope for your old phone. Read the full story here.

INDIA - We wrote previously about Nokia's recycling survey conducted last year, and Charlie picked up on it again with his Best of 2008 piece over the holidays. Now Nokia India has taken up the baton and launched an initiative to drive awareness of recycling old handsets across the country. 1300 Nokia care centres and priority dealers are being equipped with recycling bins to take back old devices...

Did you know that a mobile phone uses a small amount of minerals derived from clotan ore, and that coltan ore is mined, and with roughly a billion mobile phones sold worldwide annually that’s a great deal of mining. Now that in itself may not mean anything to the mobile phone user, but when you consider

Nokia India has announced 'Take Back' program which is aimed at educating mobile phone users on the importance of recycling. Nokia's ongoing commitment to the environment and huge effort to encourage the proper recycling of unwanted electronics to further reduce their environmental impact definitely deserves high applaud and attention. As a part of this initiative, Nokia encourage m...

Got an old Nokia hanging around or don't know what to do with your old LG? We look at five mobile phone recycling services, to help you find the best way to make cash from your old phones

As we slog through the week between Christmas and New Year’s, news might be a bit light. So instead of just going dark, we’re going to talk about various prepaid issues. Today it’s phone recycling. Cell phones are always a hot holiday gift, and everyone is always excited to get a new one up and activated. But what about old reliable? Many times, an old phone can end up in a drawe...

GLOBAL ??? There is no doubt that the past few years have seen a resurgence in environmental consciousness from consumers and businesses. And, indeed, Nokia has been working hard to expand all their recycling activities. Ranging from access to awareness to a cool video (see after jump), it's been a banner year for mobile phone recycling. Part of what we have been reporting on is how Nokia is makin...

In addition to my December 26 post, let me share with you something that I have gathered on the net. This tackles about another advantage of recycling old mobile phones. Instead of just throwing away their old phones, some people in the United Kingdom are mandated by the European Union to collect and recycle approximately

Some, or perhaps many, of you are planning to acquire a new cell phone this time of the year. Some of you may even have received a brand new mobile phone as Christmas gift. So, what to do with the old ones? Here is where the concept of mobile phone recycling will enter. Mobile phones that