How To Get Your Friends And Family To Recycle Their Mobile Phones
Despite the fact that 1.2 billion people all over the world use mobile phones with 14 million in the UK alone, not many know about mobile phone recycling. Most people think recycling is exclusively for paper, cans, and plastic cups and plates. This is where you come in. You can be the agent of change and you can be the one to start this recycling campaign among your friends and family. Your efforts may be very small from a global perspective yet you should be able to say that you are doing your part to help the environment, the unfortunate, and most of all, your family and friends themselves.
One thing you can do is to write and publish articles about mobile phone recycling. You can publish them online on your personal homepage, an ezine or any of the social networking or forum sites that you are affiliated with. Articles and blogs are two of the best sources of opinion about mobile phone recycling as they are subjective and reflect a more personal view of the topic. You may also publish your articles in the local daily paper or on flyers. Just make sure to get permission beforehand when placing flyers in public places and other people’s property.
Another thing you can do is to offer to take your family and friends to facilities that buy and recycle used mobile phones. Or even persuade your family members to ‘part exchange’ there phone against a new one as retailers now offer this service to try and get more phones recycled.
One last thing you could consider doing is to collect the old mobile phones yourself and take them to the nearest phone recycling facility, but don’t forget to give your friends and family their share of the payment.