Sell Your Mobile Phone

Need quick cash? Sell your mobile phone for money

There’s an easy way to get some quick cash that far too few people are taking advantage of: You can sell your mobile phones for money.

With technology improving on a seemingly daily basis, it’s not unusual for consumers to upgrade to new mobile phones every two years or so. This is great for the mobile phone manufacturers, but not so good for the environment. After all, consumers have to do something with all those old mobile phones.

Too often, that “something” turns out to be throwing unwanted mobiles into the trash.

This is extremely wasteful. It’s also bad for the environment. Those trashed mobile phones end up in area landfills, where they often leak toxic chemicals into the ground. It’s not a pleasant picture.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to this scenario. Consumers can simply recycle their old mobile phones. And best of all, there are plenty of easy ways to do this.

Only one way, though, brings cash back into the pockets of mobile phone owners. That involves working with private recycling companies.

An entire industry of private companies has sprung up that will recycle old mobile phones for cash. That’s right: Mobile phone owners simply send in their old mobile phones – without their SIM cards, of course – and, shortly thereafter, receive money in return.

It’s a great system. It’s just too bad so few consumers are taking advantage of it.

Consider the results from a rather depressing study from mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. According to the company, only 3 percent of mobile phone owners recycle their old mobile phones. The study also reported that a whopping 75 percent of mobile phone owners do not know how to recycle their old mobile phones.

This is a shame because the recycling system is so simple.

Basically, mobile phone owners need only log onto the Web home of one of the many mobile phone recycling services currently working in the UK. There are many of these companies from which consumers can choose.

Once consumers find a site that they like, they only have to enter some basic information about their old mobile phone. The site will then return with a financial offer. Consumers who like the offers can accept it and then mail their mobile phone to the recycling company. The company will shortly send back the agreed-upon monetary figure.

And that’s it. It’s an extremely simple way to make some extra money. How much money, of course, depends on a host of factors, including the kind of phone the consumer is recycling, the age of the phone and whether the phone is still in working order. Consumers, though, can expect to receive from 40 pounds 55 pounds on average for a working, fairly recent mobile phone.

Money, though, is not the only reason for consumers to turn to mobile phone recycling. There’s also the importance of treating the earth well. Mobile phones are already littering the country’s landfills. Every time someone chooses to recycle a mobile phone rather than trash it, that person is doing his or her part to protect the environment.

The only unanswered question is this: Why, if mobile phone recycling is so easy, do so few consumers each year sell their mobile phones for cash? The only explanation is that not enough mobile phone owners know that they have this option. There are some signs, though, that this might be changing. For one thing, newspaper and magazine stories regularly cover the advantages of recycling mobile phones for money. Hopefully, this will boost the number of mobile phones that are recycled every year.

Here’s hoping this changes soon. Today, with so much focus on green and environmentally friendly products and services, there is no reason to not recycle your old mobile phone for cash.