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
FFI’s mission is to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. Please support us today.
Conservation and human needs are inextricably linked, download our leaflet that describes how we integrate conservation and human needs.