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Did you know that your old mobile phone has the power to protect the planet?

In partnership with mobile phone recycling companies, we collect unwanted mobile phones to be recycled or refurbished. Every phone is worth a minimum of £3 – and many are worth much more – so please consider donating your unwanted phone to FFI today! 

Learn more about phone recycling for:
Individuals
Schools
Companies

As an individual, all you have to do is place your unwanted phone in an envelope and address it to:

FREEPOST ShP Solutions, Lancaster.

Please write ‘Fauna & Flora International’ on the outside of the envelope, or include our name on a note inside.  

It's that simple - and it's free.

Or if you’d like to request a free supply of FFI Freepost recycling bags to share with friends and family or at special events, send us an e-mail at recycle@fauna-flora.org.

We welcome schools’ participation in our Fones for Forests campaign, through which schools can engage students in learning about waste reduction, civic engagement, and key conservation issues. Visit www.fonesforforests.org to learn more.

Companies are the backbone of FFI’s mobile phone recycling programme. Our current corporate mobile phone recycling supporters include BP, British Airways, British Gas, Cargill, Credit Suisse, McKesson, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Vodafone. In 2007 alone, these companies raised more than £18,000 for FFI.

If your company might be interested in supporting FFI through a mobile phone recycling collection, please contact us at recycle@fauna-flora.org or call (0)1223 571000.

Why recycle?

In the UK alone, over 15 million people replace their phones every year, yet only a small percentage of these phones are recycled. Refurbishing or recycling these phones will remove an estimated 7,500 tonnes of landfill, and will prevent the potentially hazardous materials found in phones from degrading and seeping into the environment.

Reusing old mobile phones also creates social benefits for developing countries. Research shows that the high cost of handsets is the single largest barrier to mobile phone use in developing countries. By sending your old phone to FFI, you help make low cost handsets available to support development and close the digital divide.

Phone facts

• An estimated 1.75 billion mobile phones are in circulation around the world, with 45 million in the UK alone.
• Every hour, 1,712 mobile phones are replaced in the UK.
• An estimated 90 million phones lie unused in the UK.
• The cadmium from one mobile phone battery is enough to pollute 600,000 litres of water, which would fill 1/3 of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
• If all the mobile users in the UK threw away their old mobile phones when they upgraded, there would be £650,000 worth of silver sent to landfill a year.