Orange and Tele2 spearhead initiative to recycle old phones
Industry body the GSMA, along with a bunch of telcos, have set the goal of recovering a fifth of the devices they distribute for repair, reuse or recycling by the end of the decade.
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The UK is hoarding 15 million old phones
Britons are sitting on 15 million unused mobile phones, seven million old DVD players and six million TVs, according to VMO2.
TXO highlights £10m telco recycling opportunity
Telcos are sitting on a ‘goldmine’ of equipment assets and could generate significant extra revenues through recycling redundant hardware, according to TXO Systems, a UK-based telecom hardware asset management specialist.
Only 3% of consumers recycle mobile phones
Only 3 per cent of consumers worldwide recycle their old mobile phones, according to a study published by Nokia on Tuesday. The world’s biggest handset vendor also revealed that three quarters of mobile phone owners don’t even think about recycling their devices and nearly half are unaware that it is even possible to do so. […]
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