Save The Phone

How long does the average mobile phone last?
How often do people change them?

According to statistics, an average of 18 months before 83% of Italian families change their mobile phone for a newer model with more up-to-date features.

So what happens to these old phones, even if their still working? Sometimes they’re given away as gifts, sometimes people put them in a drawer and forget about them, sometimes they throw them out. Whatever the case, mobile phones are becoming a general waste problem that we’re all having to pay for.

Have you ever considered that the old phone you no longer use or just chuck into a wheely-bin could be worth something, not just economically, but even socially?

How so?
‘Save the Phone’ gives a second life to Mobile phones, either by restoring them for reuse or by recycling them for their basic materials.

‘Save the Phone’ is a program initiated by Tech-Solutions which is more than just a system for separated waste. Sales outlets that are a part of the ‘Save the Phone’ program are also collection points for disused mobiles. At absolutely no cost to themselves they can send these old phones to Tech-Solutions’s Retrieval Centre. Every phone has a ‘sale price’ that the outlet receives from Tech-Solutions.

All products received at the Centre are checked, tested and divided up according to type and condition.

If they’re reusable, they are restored to perfect working order and reintroduced to the market in developing countries. Equipment that is irretrievable is broken down into its constituent basic materials, such as glass, plastic, copper, gold etc., and goes through a separate process for recycling.

GET IN ON THE “SAVE THE PHONE” PROGRAM!