Recycling gives your phone a second life

This is something new to me.  I happened to see this at the Singtel shop at Bukit Batok West Mall.  A box for you to drop off your old mobile phones to be recycled.  It can be of other brands, and any other mobile phones accessories as well.  I had took the return-envelope as I did not had my phone with me.  I had posted it back.  Glad that it could recycle other phones too.  I had send my SE G705, with the charger, usb cable, and the ear piece.

They are going to plant a tree on my behalf and going to send me the co-ordinates of the trees and I could check it out on their OVI maps. Please do your part, and recycle all your old phones.  Read below.



Is your unused phone cluttering up your desk drawer? Our global consumer survey reveals that 44% of old mobile phones are lying in drawers at home and not being recycled. If you no longer need your mobile device or accessory, you may consider giving it to one of your friends for use or bring it back to us for recycling. 100 percent of the materials in your phone can be recovered and used to make new products or generate energy.

Recycling means there's no need to extract and refine as much material for new products, saving energy, chemicals and waste. If every Nokia user recycled just one unused phone at the end of its life, together we would save nearly 125,000 tonnes of raw materials.

Taking part in creating best practices

At Nokia, we believe it's our responsibility to make it as easy as possible to recycle mobile devices that are no longer in use. To recycle your phone, battery or charger, all you have to do is drop it off at any Nokia recycling point and we'll take care of the rest.

Nokia works with carefully selected companies who reclaim materials from the phones and accessories we pass on to them. These companies are assessed on a regular basis to make sure they're doing things properly and that anything handed to them is recycled responsibly.

Nokia supports the concept of individual producer responsibility. In order for us to carry out our own responsibilities we need others in the value chain, like consumers and retailers, to commit to bring back obsolete mobile devices for responsible recycling. Such co-operation eventually leads to a situation where significant drivers for environmentally optimized product design enabling easier recycling would become commonplace, bringing further benefits for consumers, producers and the environment.

We've been running take-back campaigns since the late 1990s and we regularly work with environmental organizations or non-governmental organizations such as WWF to increase consumer awareness in different markets around the world. We also work with others in our industry to improve recycling standards.

Nokia also participates in many projects to improve the way redundant phones are treated. These include the MPPI work group that has drafted global guidelines covering design, collection, refurbishment and recycling of mobile phones. We are also a member of StEP initiative (solving the e-waste problem), an industry and academia cooperation led by UN university.

For more details and location of the drop box, please see :
http://www.nokia.com/environment/recycling