You know your old mobile phone? Yea, that’s right, the one you have lying around in a drawer somewhere.
Well instead of forgetting about it, we could repair it or take it apart. We can make sure that battery that seems to always die at the worst time is replaced and that the old one is used to make new batteries. If your mobile phone just won’t even turn on we could take the valuable gold, copper, and silver inside of it and use it to make jewelry and automotive parts. If we could recycle just 1 ton of used mobile phones – a mere 6,000 – we can recover up to 340 grams of gold and prevent environmental damage caused by mining, that’s more than 56 times the amount of gold you would get if you mined 1 ton of gold ore (Source).
Now, not everyone is a tech-expert, but how could we get mobile phones back into the hands of the people that are? How can logistics suppliers, repair shop owners, and even cities play their part in making this happen?
