Mobile Phone Xchange addresses the worsening problem of mobile waste

Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) is one of the UK’s biggest mobile phone recycling companies who focuses on tackling the UK’s worsening mobile phone waste. Mobiles have a lifespan of only 18 months, and are often deposited on landfill sites and left to damage the environment. 15 million mobile phones are used and disposed of every year, and Mobile Phone Xchange reported that approximately 1,700 are dumped by Britons every hour. These used mobiles end up as landfill or cluttering up draws in British homes.

Mobile Phone Xchange aim to tackle mobile waste by collecting used and unwanted mobiles and selling them to developing countries. The company plan to sell the handsets for a very small percentage of what they are worth in the United Kingdom. This plan will address the environmental issues off dumping mobiles as well as providing for underprivileged people who’d normally be unable to afford a mobile.

Geoff Walters, managing director of MPX, stated that ‘There is a strong demand for used mobiles in the developing world. This scheme makes mobile services more affordable to many more and is a very positive step forward.’ This month the company has already recycled 12,277 old mobiles and 131,190 already this year.