Selling Mobile Phones for Cash

Put more cash in your pocket with mobile phone recycling

Look around your house. Do you have an old mobile phone – or two or three – just gathering dust somewhere? If you’re like most UK residents you do. Did you know that you can recycle that old mobile phone for cash?

It’s true. A large group of private recycling companies now offer UK residents money for their unwanted mobile phones. These companies sometimes offer as much as 100 pounds for certain models of mobile phones. They’ll even pay, though a bit less, for mobile phones that are no longer in working order.

This is good news not only for your pocketbook but for the environment. An ever-increasing percentage of the country’s waste stream is made up of old electronics. Consumers are constantly buying new computer monitors, MP3 players, video game systems and mobile phones.

And far too often, they’re dumping their old versions of these electronic gadgets into trash cans and dumpsters. Eventually, these unwanted electronics find their way to area landfills, where they not only take up space, but might leak potentially dangerous chemicals into the soil.

It’s far from an ideal situation. Unfortunately, it’s a distressingly common one.

You don’t have to follow this trend, though. You can do both a good deed for the environment and add more cash to your pockets. It only requires a small amount of time and an even smaller commitment of effort.

First, search the Internet for the many companies, with names such as EarthMobile.com, Envirofone.com and SellOldMobile.com, which are offering cash for old mobile phones. Find a site that you like, log onto it and then search for your old mobile phone’s make and model.

Once you locate it, click on your phone. You’ll then receive an instant offer. If you like the offer, by all means accept it. If you don’t, get ready to do some shopping. Surf the Internet for additional mobile phone recycling companies. You can then hunt for a better deal on any of these competing sites. Fortunately, there are dozens of these companies now active in the UK. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find a good offer.

Once you’ve found and accepted what you think is a fair offer for your old mobile phone, you have two choices. You can request a self-addressed and padded envelope from the recycling company, or you can simply send your old mobile phone off in an envelope of your own. No matter what option you choose, you can expect to receive your agreed-upon cash offer in seven business days or less.

See? It’s a pain-free and simple process. Just remember to remove your mobile phone’s old SIM card before you send it off in the mail. Recycling companies will just destroy any SIM cards that come with the phones they’re recycling.

By selling your mobile phone for cash, you become part of the solution to a serious environmental problem. You’re diverting at least your own old mobile phones from the waste stream. If others followed your example, the area landfills would not be nearly as overstuffed with old electronic devices.

It’s unfortunate that so few people recognize the benefits of recycling mobile phones for cash. According to some studies, 75 percent of UK residents have no idea how to or that they can recycle their old mobile phones. At the same time, only about 3 percent of UK residents ever recycle their old mobile phones.

Hopefully, the offer of cash for old mobile phones can help change this rather depressing situation. You can initiate this change by turning to mobile phone recycling when you’re ready to upgrade to the newest phone on the market.