T-Mobile offers mobile phone recycling to benefit charities
Howard Lake | 26 August 2007 | News
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
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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?”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.