You old cellphone, computer and electronic devices collecting dust at home can be a real gold mine.  Ok maybe not a gold mine but they have many precious metals like copper, iridium. They also have plastic. Recycling plastic is always a good idea.

By recycling your electronics you can firstly live a clutter free life, get more space in your draw and save the environment. You will be saving the precious natural resources and reduce global warming.

recycled cellphones can follow to paths in their afterlife.

• Reuse - They can be donated to a charity organisation (imagine a person who can’t afford food carrying a cellphone)
• Recycle - If the cellphone is dead then all components can be 100% recycled.

According to a study in US  recycling cell phones can save enough energy to power more than 2,035 U.S. households for a year. Recycling the 100 million cell phones that are no longer used annually would save enough energy to power more than 18,000 households for a year.

Imagine how much more energy we could produce when we ecycle all our old computers collecting dust in our garages.

Cellphone Graveyard - Where cellphones go when they die

In South Africa ecycling company

CellforCash is a recycling company changing the world by providing a viable, profitable, responsible and sustainable system for recycling and re-using eWaste through its used cell phone buy-back service.

From the 4th April 2009 CellforCash  will be at the at the following Flea Markets:

• B&B Markets  - Hillfox (On Hendrick Potgieter Dr in Roodepoort)
• B&B Markets - Rooftop (Above Rosebank Mall)
• B&B Markets - Hatfield (Pretoria)
• Bruma Market World (Opposite East Gate Shopping Centre)
• East Rand Traders Square (Opp East Rand Mall).
• Panorama (On Klieprevier Dr in Mulburton)