Cash 2 Recycle

A Mobile Phone company in Austria called Mobilkom has just launched there own mobile phone recycling campaign. Mobilkom Austria have said that they will be donating €3 to Doctors without Borders for each old mobile phone that is handed in to them at either a A1 Shop or Telekom Austria Shop.

The operator said, that it is also looking at getting its business customers to participate in the recycling action, to generate more publicity for the charity and greater awareness of the recycling scheme.

Annie Jackson, co-owner of Recycle Video Games a store in Oregon USA, that stated that the number of people trading in and Recycling Games Consoles and Selling Video Games has increased in the recession. She has stated that “The worse it gets the better it is for us”. Her shop is packed with retor style games for the NES, but also more recent consoles such as the XBox 360 and Playstation 3. Games Consoles quickley become obsolete with new version with better games, better graphivs and more memory – such as the PS3 Slim.

Bulgarian mobile operator Globul and phone accessories retailer Germanos have collected 2182kg of used mobile phones, batteries and other accessories for recycling in the first year of their joint campaign.

The old parts were all collected from 266 stores and offices of Germanos and Globul nationwide, by customers and company staff. Globul Green hopes to reduce its own carbon footprint and increase the need for environmental awareness in Bulgaria.

Globul said that it continued to reduce paper usage in its offices and for advertisement leaflets, saving 34 tons or the equivalent of 800 trees. Between November 2008 and February 2009, the campaign collected 930kg of handsets, batteries and accessories, exceeding initial expectations.

Leading Mobile Phone Recycling company Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) has had to release a new advert after they were found by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to be misleading.

A viewer complained to the ASA after MPX’s original TV ad had stated, “Did you know that you can exchange any unwanted mobile phones for cash at mobilephoneexchange.co.uk? If you have recently upgraded or are about to change your phone, then visit our website to get an instant valuation for your old mobile.”

The viewer complained because MPX would not accept their old mobile phone, contray to what was stated in the advert. MPX admitted to the ASA that it did not offer cash for every single model of phone, but that around 900 handset models were accepted for exchange and so the company was not misleading consumers.

The ASA decreed that the advertisement must not be used again, as it was likely to mislead consumers into thinking any mobile phone could be exchanged. MPX managing director Geoff Walters said: “The campaign in question was not live at the time. We have started a new campaign that has been reworded. We had made a mistake which we have now fixed.”

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