Seven times world surfing champion Layne Beachley is putting her support behind MobileMuster and Landcare Australia to promote their “old phones, more trees” campaign.
It has been reported that the seven times world surfing champion Layne Beachley is putting her support behind MobileMuster and Landcare Australia to promote their “old phones, more trees” campaign. This campaign aims to collect 250,000 mobile handsets by the end of the month and plant up to 25,000 trees on the coastline of Australia.
There are still many people who get new mobile phones either off the shelf, as gifts, or as part of a new contract, but they fail to do anything with their old ones, leaving them gathering dust in the home somewhere and eventually throwing them out after which they often end up in landfills.
Beachley said: “There’s 19 million unused phones in Australia sitting in drawers and in people’s homes.” She added that people “… fail to recognise that 90 per cent of the mobile phones, including the charger and accessories, are recyclable.” She continued: “We continue to feel obliged to keep buying the latest and greatest phones when things are still working. It just comes down to a lack of awareness and a lack of education.”
Recycling old mobiles has become increasingly easy, as consumers can simply drop them in at designated venues or can even use the Internet and send them in via a reply paid envelope that will be sent to them when they register their details with one of the firms that deals with recycling online.
Source – Ninemsn
