If you’ve been on this site investigating various links and things, then maybe you figured out that I do a bunch of various kinds of writing around the web, and own a few blog projects about things like restaurants in Portland and hotels and travel, in addition to my green blog where I talk mostly about issues pertaining to sustainability, recycling and the environment. But as a professional artist, here on my personal website, I tend to only focus on what’s been going on of late with either my writing or my painting. After this move up to Portland, as is often the case for people picking up all their belongings and moving to another city somewhat far away, I dug up a lot of things, took them out of old drawers and put them into moving boxes. During that time, I found tons of old, obsolete bits of technology, and have been researching what to do with them. Can I recycling my old mobile phone, or sell my phone online and have it end up somewhere that won’t harm the environment? I mean, I’d be a hypocrite, right? Were I to be the guy running a green blog, but then just throwing my phone into the trash because I had moved on to a new phone? So that’s the question. Can you sell your phone for cash? After not too much research, the answer is definitely yes, especially if you are overseas, where websites dedicated to safely disposing of obsolete and potentially toxic e-waste exist in droves. (more…)
September 20, 2010
Talking About Recycling Mobile Phones
September 10, 2010
Buying Gadgets and New Technology
I do my best not to spend money on things all the time, but it’s hard not to. I just started putting a lot of money into my record collection, and then in order to get the best fidelity in terms of the audio, well, not two months into this little experiment / habit, I start thinking I need new and better studio-sounding speakers. So then it’s how do I create a budget for that, and should I really buy these, and how much better will my life be because of them, etc. Lots of people have their lives centered around gadgets and put tons of effort into needing to have the latest technology and then some. Though I’ve never really been that way, I do see the merits of some of it. I spend a lot of time getting really irate at the iPhone, but I’m reluctant to get rid of it. I never used to want to have my phone do more than just give me the ability to talk with others when it was absolutely necessary, but after I finally relented and got the iPhone, and then a couple of years go by, it suddenly becomes indispensable. I take pictures of food when I write the restaurant reviews up here in Portland. I have cataloged the development of the kitten. I use the maps on the phone to navigate through a brand new city. You know the drill. We all do it to some extent, become beholden to these things that appear to make our lives at once both easier and then somehow more difficult. (more…)
September 3, 2010
Cash for Mobile Phones Phone Recycling Online
Recycling Mobile Phones Website for My UK Friends
If you have an old mobile phone lying around on a book case or in an old sock drawer, then go find it and get ready to make some extra cash. There is a reason why there is so much new competition among companies trying to get you to sell mobiles for cash these days. Not only is the act of recycling your obsolete mobile phone an important one, it’s pretty vital to the proper treatment of the planet, which is easy to understand as soon as you do a bit of research on exactly what is contained within these things.
There are a ton of toxic metals and elements that are not very cooperative with the soil, especially if you just throw them in the trash and they end up in a landfill. And because technology is always evolving and new phones and gadgets are always being introduced to the market where we covet after them so viciously, well — you see how this goes. More trash that is being unsafely disposed of and more damage being done to the environment. Technology evolves rapidly, making gadgets such as mobile phones completely obsolete, often in just a matter of months. But the truth is, you don’t need to throw away your old mobile phone this time, when you can get paid cash for mobiles, receive money for your unused mobile phone, and in the process, do your part for the environment.
Enter: Cash for Mobile Phones UK, an Explanation of How It Works
This is as simple as a four part process: here’s how anyone can get cash for mobile phones, while simultaneously doing their part for the health and safety of planet. Go online to the site and search for your old phone by name and model. Once you find it, you’ll be able to see what it’s worth. At that point, you can request the mailer envelope for free, with included postage. Simply pop the phone into the envelope and the envelope into the post. Your phone will be tested and if you meet the basic terms and conditions, then you will receive your cash. Simple as that.
