The Impact of Mobile Phones on the Environment
Over 800 million people use mobile phones around the world and that number grows every day, watch any TV channel for and extended period of time and you will be bombarded by ads to buy the newest, sleekest, most fashionable mobile phone and the ads are working, in Australia alone over 3.5 million mobile phones were bought in the last 12 months, now that raises the question "with all the new phones rolling in what happens to the old ones?" Well the truth is they usually end up in some forgotten drawer being saved for an emergency or to be given to loved ones and that's all well and good until inevitably, Wether on purpose or by accident, they end up in the bin, from there they go to the dump and end up in land fill which is were they stay, now you may ask "what's the problem, out of sight out of mind right?" Well no not really and this is why, Phones can contain things like toxic metals and plastics as well as precious metals, now when a phone is thrown out the precious metal it contains is lost forever, although there is only a small amount in each phone after a while that metal accumulates and don't get me started on the toxic metals, they will poison the environment, the plastics remain for hundreds of years. Also when phones are made, large amounts of greenhouse gasses are produced which as I'm sure you can imagine is bad for the environment, but there is a way to change this, if you recycle your phones not only will we be able to reclaim the precious metal but use the old phone parts to make new phones thus lowering the need to make materials and lowering the amount of greenhouse gas created. So in the future before you throw your phone away or leave it to collect dust in some drawer think of the good you can do if you recycle it.
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