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cell phone recycling - do good for the environment and Bad Ems

Bad Ems The Community Foundation is planning to collect old cell phones. Citizens, but also companies from the region of Bad Ems can accomplish through their participation in two good deeds: The Old phones are disposed of safely, the proceeds from the recycling campaign will be donated to the Community Foundation Bad Ems.

is about two years, used a cell phone in Germany before its users, it exchanged for a newer model. It will, however, usually take place no real exchange: The old equipment ends up in a drawer or even in the garbage where it belongs in any case. Nevertheless, throwing four percent of mobile phone users their old appliance away easily. It is estimated that annually 5,000 tons of electronic waste out of old phones. 40 to 50 million phones are lying unused in the cupboard, as they have been replaced by a successor. In Germany it is almost one in three mobile phone users that would cancel his old device only once, without, however, to use again.

It is with the mobile phone recycling an environmentally friendly and charitable way to dispose of old mobile phones. About 80 percent of the materials used in a mobile phone can be recycled again, the high-tech association BITKOM. In addition, various recycling companies pay for every old mobile phone an amount that varies depending on model. The recycling of old mobile phones is of course independent of a contract extension, a new contract or buying a specific new device. The Community Foundation
Bad Ems is about to undertake a fund-raising "old-phone" and asks the citizens, but also the companies from the region surrounding the donation of old mobile phones are no longer used. Sponsor of the campaign are asked to keep the old phones to the fundraising campaign of the Community Foundation Bad Ems begins. For further information about the start of the action will follow.
are available for personal information about the Community Foundation continues to the founders and Chairman of Committees Ottmar Canz (Schifflerweg 14, Bad Ems, phone 02603/6305) and Wilhelm Augst (Mercurstraße 1, Bad Ems, phone 02603/12670) you may have.