# Body Shop recycles mobile phones to raise funds for Refuge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/16/body-shop-recycles-mobile-phones-raise-funds-refuge/
- Published: 2004-01-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Body Shop has joined forces with mobile phone recycling company Greener Solutions
to collect customers’ old or unwanted mobile phones and donate £2.75 for each one
to Refuge, the charity dedicated to helping women and children affected by domestic
violence.**

Over three quarters of a million mobile phone handsets may have been dumped in a
drawer or thrown in the bin since Christmas according to a new survey from the Body
Shop. Just 4% of those questioned in the poll said they will be recycling their 
old phone. Over a quarter will either do nothing with their old phone or will simply
throw it away.

The recycling campaign began on 5 January 2004. Unwanted handsets can be dropped
off at any branch of the Body Shop.

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Founder of The Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, said: “Three-quarters of a million
unwanted phones equates to over £2 million that could be used to throw a lifeline
to the victims of domestic violence and their families. We urge everyone who received
a new mobile for Christmas to bring the old one into their nearest The Body Shop
store and help our fight against violence in the home.”

The recycling campaign is part of The Help Stop Violence in the Home campaign which
is running in over 300 stores of The Body Shop across the UK.

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