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How does recycling my phone help the environment?
There are potentially 800 million redundant mobile phones gathering dust in drawers around the world. A lot of these phones are just thrown out with the waste. Mobile phones however contain a lot of dangerous metals that can damage the environment and therefore they need to be disposed in special recycling plants.
If phones are just thrown away then the bio-accumulative metals within them will become toxic over time. Phones can contain dangerous chemicals such as cadmium (the 7th most dangerous chemical), lead, nickel, mercury, lithium etc. Cadmium is highly carcinogenic while lead can also cause both liver and neurological problems. If the phones are not correctly recycled then the metals can corrode and leak into the environment. As many of these elements cannot decompose the level of harmful toxins can build up. Lithium, for example, if it comes......


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