{"id":995,"date":"2008-10-24T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/995-mobile-phone-wastage.html"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:54:48","slug":"mobile-phone-wastage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/995-mobile-phone-wastage.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone wastage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a release today from Moneysupermarket.com, promoting its <a href=\"http:\/\/moneysupermarket.love2recycle.com\/\">recycling service<\/a>, two-thirds of us (in the UK) don\u2019t recycle old handsets. The worrying aspect of this is that handsets include some nasty chemicals (mostly in batteries) which should be disposed of safely. Many people either don\u2019t know or don\u2019t care about the regulations and throw old phones in the bin, whereupon they end up in landfill. Of course you could say the same about laptops, iPods, shavers, and no end of other electronic devices with rechargeable batteries. Moneysupermarket.com made a model out of old phones to make the point (that\u2019s London\u2019s Post Office Tower in the background):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/recycle-phone.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure about the recycling service \u2013 you might do better on eBay, except for worthless old devices. Still, I do think this is a problem that should be addressed. I hate the casual manner in which we chuck poison into landfill, risking it finding its way into the foodchain. A good start would be to regulate against the business model of the major telecom providers, which subsidises the hardware thus encouraging users to change their devices long before they are really worn out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b8d5c527-fb71-452f-83bd-185df07923de\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/recycling\" rel=\"tag\">recycling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wastage\" rel=\"tag\">wastage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mobile+devices\" rel=\"tag\">mobile devices<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a release today from Moneysupermarket.com, promoting its recycling service, two-thirds of us (in the UK) don\u2019t recycle old handsets. The worrying aspect of this is that handsets include some nasty chemicals (mostly in batteries) which should be disposed of safely. Many people either don\u2019t know or don\u2019t care about the regulations and throw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/995-mobile-phone-wastage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile phone wastage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-computing","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}