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Old 21-07-2006, 12:18 AM   #1
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Default What to do with old mobile phones.

What do you do with your old mobiles when you're done with them? Are there places that recycle/repair them and if so where does one find them? I couldn't find anything related in the phonebook after a brief search. It seems a waste to just toss them in the bin…

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Old 21-07-2006, 12:24 AM   #2
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Bit advertising campain by Planet Ark (?) at the moment about phone recycling. Similar to their Christmas card bins. If you take it to any phone retailer, they've got special bins as far as I know.
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Old 21-07-2006, 12:38 AM   #3
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Bit advertising campain by Planet Ark (?) at the moment about phone recycling. Similar to their Christmas card bins. If you take it to any phone retailer, they've got special bins as far as I know.

this would be correct! any telstra, vodafone or optus, or similar would be able to dispose of these properly
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Old 21-07-2006, 09:00 AM   #4
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Recycling Phones that is the first time i have ever heard of that, are you sure?
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No joke at all. I dare not put a number on the quantity of phones here (and in the UK I'm guessing) not ROHS compliant.
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Old 21-07-2006, 09:18 AM   #6
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you must be able to over here it just seems weird i have never heard of it lol :hihi:
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Vodafone stores recycle them otherwise if you want some cash, sell em on ebay. I've sold quite a few dead or dismantled phones.
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Old 21-07-2006, 02:37 PM   #8
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Take it one night to a pub or a bar, and then have a really over the top breakup on it. "What do you mean b*#ch! No, go to hell, Im breaking up with you!" Then smash the phone into the ground. The looks on everyone's faces is priceless. Once in a while you will even have someone buy you a round!
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Take it one night to a pub or a bar, and then have a really over the top breakup on it. "What do you mean b*#ch! No, go to hell, Im breaking up with you!" Then smash the phone into the ground. The looks on everyone's faces is priceless. Once in a while you will even have someone buy you a round!

: That's a FANTASTIC idea!
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Old 21-07-2006, 03:38 PM   #10
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drop it under the ride-on lawn mower and watch what happens.
ummm ... actually I did that with a working phone that I actually wanted to keep .... not cool.

Oh well ... makes a not so nice noise ... but a shredded mobile phone does look kinda cool
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I just gave mine to my folks......it puts you in the good books.......at least for a few hours! :
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Maybe they get refurbished and sold to 3rd world countries.
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i keep my old ones (well the more recent "old" ones) as backup - my work supplied one was crappy so I'm using one of my old mobile phones and the work one is in the drawer at work.

I also use one of my old bluetooth ones as a backup for all phone numbers/details, on a regular basis I copy my address book to the old phone.
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But once your plan runs out and you have a new phone they become useless dont they?

Or can you use sim cards with them?
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the sim card is yours to use in whatever phone you want unless the phone is locked into a certain provider
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Maybe they get refurbished and sold to 3rd world countries.
Would third world countries have mobile phone masts?
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A lot of 3rd world countries do not have an infrastructure, yet they have nuclear missiles and 9 billion army men and women.lol
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they certainly do!
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The old phones handed in at phoneshops do get recycled.
Lots of minerals like Gold in em .
Gold as you are aware is the best conductor of electricity and is used on lots of electrical terminals .. Such as your cars ECU and Amps
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