IPPTS WastersBlog Infographic Reveals Poor UK Mobile Phone Recycling Rate

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IPPTS WastersBlog Infographic Reveals
Poor UK Mobile Phone Recycling Rate
IPPTS Associates, the producers of the popular "WastersBlog" have just published a new
infographic image which reveals the very low UK recycling rate currently being achieved for
old mobile phones. It goes on to explain why recycling your mobile phone is very important.
Shropshire, UK, December 02, 2014 /PressReleasePing/ - As part of their ongoing efforts
to provide the best information on waste and resource management, IPPTS Associates has
published a new fact-filled infographic image. It is an engaging infographic to raise awareness
of the importance to the health of our environment of good practise in mobile phone recycling,
and it also indicates how easy it is to recycle an old phone, by selling it to a responsible phone
recycling company.
It is available on their
WastersBlog.Com website, which was first published in 2000, and promotes sustainable
waste and resource management through its regular posts, and the article emails sent to its
over 700 subscribers.
The stylish informational image, sheds light on the most important aspects of mobile phone
recycling, and the importance of sustainable mobile phone waste disposal to protect the
environment from the escape into the environment of the toxic substances used in mobile
devices. It is assumed that once the reader has appreciated the gravity of this matter they will
also be interested in the brief suggestion made to help them recycle any old phone they may
have themselves.
The infographic is intended to be read by anyone interested in the health of their local

environment, who owns a smartphone or tablet computer, and IPPTS has also created a
video which shows explains the infographic, on the popular YouTube website in a video titled: "
How to Recycle my Phone".
Interested individuals can view the full article at www.wastersblog.com/uk-mobile-phonerecycling
.
One of the most surprising pieces of information in the article is the fact that only 11% of UK
phone owners recycle them, and the rest just throw them in the bin.
In discussing the thought behind creation of the new infographic, Steve Symes, Marketing
Manager of IPPTS Associates said:
“With general recycling levels for household waste now in the region of 40% UK wide, we
thought that it was strange, and in fact very disappointing that only 11% of mobile devices are
currently being recycled in the most efficient manner by selling them on to expert recycling
companies. No doubt a proportion of the mobile phones that are thrown into residual waste
bins by people, are removed from the waste stream subsequently, and treated as e-waste.
They won’t then go to landfill, but this means that less of the material in each phone can be
recycled and the process is much less efficient. Less efficiency also means less
environmentally friendly.”
“Much more needs to be done to raise awareness of the danger of pollution caused by
electronic devices when they are not recycled, and as a result being disposed to landfills.
Eventually, the contaminants in phones may leak out into water supplies, even from the best
managed landfills. So, there is a real need for the public to be much more active in phone
recycling, in our view. That’s why we teamed up with phone recycling experts OnRecycle to
make and publicize the pressing need for improvement in this area.”
Customers who have specific questions about past, or present articles, or who even wish to
participate in future articles should contact IPPTS Associates via their website by clicking on
the following link: http://wastersblog.com .
11 Adswood Grove Shrewsbury Shropshire
Stephen Last
IPPTS Associates
+441743247864
info@wastersblog.com
http://wastersblog.com
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