Thousands of readers have responded to the News of the World’s Go Green and Save recycling programme to recycle old mobile phones.

We have already taken over eight-thousand phones since the campaign was launched a couple of weeks ago and we are helping to pay an average of £31 per telephone to a total of £250,000. Be sure that you do not miss out on this opportunity to help save the planet and make some cash in the process.

Father of two from Wakefield, Tim Gent, 42, made £177 from two old Nokia handsets and a Samsung while clerical worker, Hayley Dale, 36, from Bury St. Edmunds, made £129 from her two old Nokia handsets from 3 Mobile.

All you need to do is hunt out your old telephones and send them into us. As a reward for going green with a mobile broadband handset, we will also enter you in a free prize draw with the chance to win £500 worth of Argos vouchers.

Just click on the link and type in the details of your old mobile phone to find out how much money you can get for it. Once you’ve done this, we will send you a padded envelope and upon its return, you will be paid. It’s as easy as that!

The Freds. Group manages a collection of debt amounting to over three billion for various European institutions including BT. One of it’s companies, Fredrickson International, recently introduced a unique new scheme which creates an unusual way for debtors to lower the amount they owe.

Joining forces with a leading phone recycling business, the system set up allows individuals to trade unused handsets for a debt reduction. This can all be done on line and the device in question is then sent off to ShP Limited for disposal. Electronic links between the debt recovery and the recycler means that it is a very simple procedure.

In the shattered economy currently being experienced in the UK initiatives like this are to be welcomed and it’s likely that other’s in the industry will follow suit to help save the environment. The recently set up system combines the reduction of e-waste with an additional way for someone to tackle their financial woes.

Group Marketing Director, Jan-Michael strongly advocates taking down the hurdles to debt management and says his company is very happy to lead the way.

Mobile phone recyclers are taking a major role in environmental awareness. Mobile phone companies are there to set new standards for better recycling. This will help in the saving the environment from the nasty elements found in your phone it includes removal of personal data from handsets and checks the damaged handsets, which are a shear waste.

Mobile phone recycling companies have called for the removal of all personal data for the protection of the identity of mobile phone users. Recycling handsets that contain the personal data of the users, which can be retrieved and can be misused.

Recycling companies are taking the initiative to destroy such information to protect privacy of the owners. Mazumamobile and Mopay are the two companies who gave the green light to this proposal as well as providers such as 3 Mobile.

Regenersis is calling for a zero landfill policy and a requirement that all non-working, non-repairable products are recycled in their home market rather than in places such as China, India or Africa, minimizing impact on the environment.

This leads to a heavy pollution and it degrades the environment to a great deal. Handsets are recycled using the standards, which protects the market in terms of services offered by mobile broadband companies.

It guarantees customers privacy and companies are also able to give quality products to the customers by reselling recycled handsets.

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