Over the past year mobile phone recycling has become one of the fastest growing segments of the green industry. This is largely due to the efforts of local councils and mobile phone manufacturers, who have launched a variety of schemes in an effort to increase the recycling rates of phones. Mobile phones can be particularly damaging to the environment, as they take up precious space in landfills and often leak toxic chemicals into the soil that end up contaminating drinking water. Nokia, one of the largest providers of mobile phones in the world, has announced plans to encourage customers to recycle their mobile phones. Nokia recently did a study to find out how many mobile phones are lying around unused, and how many people are aware of the options that they have for recycling.
The study, which interviewed over six thousand people in thirteen different countries, found some staggering statistics. After interviewing people in Finland, Brazil, Indonesia, United States, UK, Russia, Italy, Germany, Sweden, China, India, Nigeria, and the UAE, it was found that only about three percent of people currently recycle their unused mobile phones. The study also revealed that nearly seventy five percent of those interviewed did not know how to go about recycling a phone, or were completely unaware that mobile phone recycling was even possible.
Nokia noted that over eighty percent of their phone parts can be recycled and used to make other popular household items. Currently people can drop off their unused mobile phones at any Nokia Center.
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