Brits urged to wave goodbye to their old mobile phone

It’s always strange when people get attached to their old mobile phone.

So you may have a few sentimental text messages on there, or a few funny photos from when you were at school or a gargantuan score on Snake II from that time your train broke down for four hours.

But it never actually gets used.

Which is why a lot of organisations these days are pushing people to get past the nostalgia felt when they look into that big brick of a handset and get recycling.

Research recently released by Recycle Now, in conjunction with Recycle Week, which took place from June 21st to 27th, showed that the public appear to rely on electrical goods and even form bonds with them.

Some 40 per cent of respondents stated they would feel too sad to part with an item, while 41 per cent said they kept hold of it in case they needed it in the future.

Commenting on the figures, however, head of marketing for Environe Julia Snape explained that people like this should be more aware that if they were to give away their old gadgets it would get a lot more use than if it were just thrown away.

She added: “Their phone could go to a developing country where sometimes the communications telephone infrastructure is not as good as it is in the developed world.

“If they knew it was improving their quality of life and the trading opportunities by having that mobile phone, then people would be less attached to keeping it in their drawer just in case.”

Do you recycle your old mobile phones?