Spreading Awareness Regarding Mobile Phone Recycling Using Various Methods

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Selling an old mobile phone is easy because there are various companies taking those phones to be subsequently recycled. It can be done in 3 easy steps. They are

  • Quote-Find the website and get a quote for your mobile phone. Type in your mobile’s model name, number, condition and you will receive the cash offer as a quote from the website.
  • Mode of Payment- After you receive the quote, check the modes of payments. Whether you want to be paid through PayPal or through Apple, choose the payment option.
  • Choose between Shipping Options-There are 2 shipping options provided by the company. Either you can print a prepaid label for shipping whereby you can send the device on the same day or receive a shipping kit from our end with a box at your doorstep.

Most of the companies provide these facilities to their customers. However, there are organizations which might provide some other facility.

What Happens to the Data?

When you are willing to sell your old phone to a recycler, you must take back-up of all the important data from your device. Majority of the companies take privacy seriously thereby wiping the data from devices to avoid any kind of leak in security and confidentiality. However, it is always wise to take back-up of your important data before mobile phone recycling.

All the email accounts, passwords, videos and photos must be stored by you safely before giving away your phone for recycling. Any kind of text should also be saved before selling the device. After you have taken a back-up, perform factory reset on your mobile phone. Encrypting the data is also another important thing one must do to keep them safe.Encrypted data cannot be viewed by anyone without providing the password. Password of course is non-transferrable. If you wish to disable factory reset protection, remove the Gmail account provided to your phone operating system. Finally, perform a factory reset once again before giving away your gadget.

Tree Planted Against One Device

This is an interesting initiative which doubles up in providing environmental security as well as mobile phone reuse. NGOs have partnered with various companies to spread awareness regarding this initiative. In fact, planting a tree against each and every old cell phone has really caught on and is quite a good step to create a forest.

Mobile phone recyclinghas become the best option for reusing the old cell phones. The companies provide various facilities to customers for selling the devices. The data should be kept safe and secured so that you do not lose anything important. The tree plantation is a fantastic initiative taken up by companies along with NGOs to spread awareness regarding recycling.