# T-Mobile offers mobile phone recycling to benefit charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/08/26/tmobile-offers-mobile-phone-recycling-benefit-charities/
- Published: 2007-08-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Mobile telecoms operator T-Mobile has partnered with Fonebak to encourage poeple
to recycling their old or unused mobile phones. Such phones can be worth up to £
80 and Fonebak will pay this to a nominated individual or a charity of the sender’s
choice.
To recycle a mobile phone you can pick up a freepost recycling bag at a 
T-Mobile shop. Purchasers of a new phone will receive one automatically.

“Anyone can put their old phone in our freepost bag and reduce waste and make money,
either for charity or themselves,” said Jim Hyde, CEO of T-Mobile UK

How can charities take advantage of this scheme? Michael Webb, writing in NFP TECHNO,
suggested: “how about mailing your supporters and asking them to recycle an old 
phone in your name?”

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