Turn old mobiles into cash to help local older people

Age Concern has set up a new scheme with mobile phone recycling partner Greener Solutions that will tap into the vast mobile phone replacement market, benefit the environment and importantly help support our work with older people.

The statistics are staggering:

• Over 20 million handsets will be upgraded in the UK this year alone
• Estimates put the number of redundant mobiles kept in cupboards and drawers at anything between 50 and 80 million
• Only 10% of old mobiles are currently recycled

New waste disposal regulations make it illegal to mix electronic equipment such as mobiles with general waste going to landfill sites, which means you shouldn’t just throw them in the bin.

So please recycle your old mobiles and protect the environment and help local older people. Phones that can be re-used provide affordable first time communications for developing countries, others will have parts and materials recycled into new phones with unsalvageable parts safely disposed of.

For every phone collected, Age Concern receives £3 regardless of its condition. These donations have already helped us raise an additional £138 towards local services for older people.

Call Age Concern Blackburn with Darwen on 01254 266 620 or email us at enquiries@ageukbwd.org.uk to request free post envelopes to send your old mobiles in. You can also call into our offices at 4 King Street or our Darwen Shop at 3 Market Street, or our office in Darwen Town Hall.