Why bother to sell your old phone - even if it's not worth much

Whether you've recently upgraded to the newest model or found a drawer full of strange gadgets, you may have wondered whether it's worth selling your old mobile phone. The thought of making a little more bucks is always enticing, but who wants to go through the trouble of searching for a good deal? It's not that. It's tempting to forego the search if you have reason to believe your old phone isn't worth much and most of the time these phones end up in landfill and cause e-waste, which is bad for the environment.

By selling your device to the recycler you will get the extra cash and the phone gets recycled properly and doesn't get piled up in a landfill which is good for the environment.

According to researchers at Columbia, Climate School says that mobile phones and other electronic devices are a major source of exposure to a wide variety of dangerous compounds and metals, including as lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium, PVC plastic, and brominated flame retardants. Even if you don't think chemistry was your best subject in high school, you should be able to see that doesn't bode well.

Is it possible that only one gadget may do any damage? The quantity of toxins in just one smartphone battery is enough to poison 60,000 liters of water. More than 17,000 cups of tea would fill that amount.

Even more so, in the year 2020, 1,378,000,000 mobile phones were sold. The number of old phones that might be dumped if they aren't resold remains high even if just a small percentage of them were replacements. The issue is significant.

When I resell my phone, what will happen to it?

You might expect to see your mobile device resold if it is a relatively new Samsung or Apple iPhone in excellent shape. There are many consumers who can get by just fine with an older phone model since they have no need for the most recent release.

if you sell a damaged phone with minor faults, it is most likely to get restored by our qualified technicians such as cracked glass, a broken microphone jack, or a dead battery. This may entail a very little tweak or a major reconstruction. Whatever the case may be, you can be certain that Zextons know what we're doing and will breathe new life into even the most forgotten of old phones.

However, mobile phone recyclers may still pay you for your old device, even if it is in poor working condition and cannot be repaired. All because of the components included in modern smartphones. Any mobile phone, whether an iPhone, Samsung, or another brand, has a number of precious elements that, if extracted, may net the thief a substantial sum of money.

Copper, palladium, lithium, cobalt, and metals more often associated with jewelry than electronics (gold, silver, and platinum) are among these. It's not like you need to recall anything from your chemistry classes in middle school to understand that these elements are really valuable. The basic materials in electronics trash, such as old phones, were worth an estimated $57 billion in 2019.

Recycling of phones in a responsible manner

It may be enticing to think that you might earn some money by selling the valuable elements in your phone, but doing so is very risky due to the presence of poisonous compounds in many of the components that make up modern technology. On the other hand, specialised factories are able to both salvage precious components and recycle less value components in an accurate and risk-free manner. They can do both simultaneously.

Unfortunately, the surge in the sales of mobile phones over the course of the last decade, coupled with the absence of adequate regulations to deal with the ever-increasing volumes of electronic trash, has resulted in a recycling rate of less than 20%. When obsolete phones are sold in the United Kingdom, Europe, or the United States, they often end up being disposed of in Africa or southeast Asia. There, recyclers will disassemble the phones in unofficial workshops in order to extract the valuable materials. Although this will allow them to make money, it will also put their health and the environment in which they operate in grave danger.

For example, the Columbia University's School of the Climate reports "Inhaling toxic chemicals and coming into direct contact with hazardous e-waste materials (even in some formal settings dedicated to the recycling of e-waste), according to research, can lead to an increase in spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, premature births, reduced birth weights, mutations, congenital malformations, abnormal thyroid function, increased lead levels in the blood, decreased lung function, and neurobehavioral disturbances. In addition, the air, the land, and the groundwater get polluted due to the poisons that are released by electronic trash."

The conclusion that can be drawn from these data is that the price that a firm gives you for an outdated mobile device is not the only factor to take into account when selling your phone. In addition to this, you need to make sure that the firm you do business with is respectable and trustworthy so that the phone may be recycled in an ethical manner. You'll find that doing so is quite a little simpler now, thanks to the assistance we've provided.

Why sell your mobile phone to Zextons?

We are well aware that "Sell my phone" is not at the top of anyone's list of enjoyable activities. When individuals realise what a potential minefield phone recycling can be in terms of both safety and sustainability, "Sell my phone" goes even lower down that list, as we already know.

However, here at Zextons, we have done all in our power to make this issue as easy as possible. In order to save you the trouble of searching for better deals elsewhere, we prioritise honesty and long-term viability above everything else on our list of priorities.

Giving a new life to the phones is an essential part of what we do; in fact, it is all that we do, which is why it is sort of vital that we be particularly skilled at it. It is fundamental to our circular business strategy, which can be summed up as "Zextons" and is essentially our interpretation of the circular economy. Because of this business strategy, not a single phone is discarded (or sent to a landfill), but rather it is repurposed for use by a new owner or recycled by one of our reliable business partners.

We go one step further in our commitment to sustainability by planting trees for every phone that is sold in order to offset the CO2 emissions that the device will produce during its lifespan.

We promise to take care of it and do our best to give it a new life, which will be beneficial to both your wallet and the environment. This will be the case regardless of how scuffed or scratched your phone may be as a result of those forgotten evenings out after the lockout.

Do you want to know how much your phone is worth or are you searching for a way to save money on that cup of coffee in the morning?  check out our website at sell.zextons.co.uk.  You'll be paid within 24 hours.

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