Make your old mobile useful. Recycle!
Instead of wandering what to do with it, bring for recycling your useless mobile phone to the nearest GLOBUL or GERMANOS store. To show it clear that you support the green idea, you’ll receive the special GLOBUL Green bracelet.
In November GLOBUL Green started a national campaign for recycling of mobile phones, batteries (without alkaline ones), chargers, hads-free devices and other mobile phone accessories. The initiative that has been implemented successfully for years in over 20 countries around the world has the ambition to change human indifference and minimize the harmful effect that electronic waste has on the environment also in Bulgaria
A mobile phone with a timer
Disarm your mobile phone by sending it to the future from where it will come back in the form of some of the precious materials it has been made of.
Facts speaking:
- About 44% of the people around the world keep their old mobiles at home just because they do not know that they can do something useful with them.
- If wrongly thrown out in nature, a single battery can poison about 600,000 liters of priceless water - this is the amount that a 4-member family from Germany uses for two years, and the same family from Mozambique - for more than 102 years.
Source: 360data.org - A battery, thrown out in a wrong way, liberates toxins (nickel-cadmium and mercury) in the soil which can penetrate food and cause irretrievable changes in men’s health.
We hope…
… that each of the 4 million GLOBUL subscribers will give back his/her useless phone. Thus valuable materials such as gold, silver, platinum, lithium, nickel, plastics will be re-used. Then nature will continue giving its best for me, you and everybody else. Then we will witness an eco-lifestyle being born. Then our children’s future will be better.
Facts speaking:
- Bulgarian dung-hills are situated on an area, larger than 3,000 football fields. If we recycle garbage, this area will become significantly smaller and the money earned from the recycled materials, will go back into the economy.
- 6 months after being produced, over 90% of the goods (or their packaging) turn into trash.
- In 2020 Europe will produce 45% more trash than in 1995.
- World recycling industry processes 600 million tons of waste per year and generates income of over 160 billion USD.
Data: UNECO
The road of the mobile phone
All out-of-use mobile devices, batteries (except alkaline ones) and other accessories, picked at GLOBUL and GERMANOS stores, are given to licensed organizations, conducting separate disposal, transportation, temporary warehousing, preliminary treating, recycling, reusing and/or securing of out-of-use electronic and electrical equipment. GLOBUL and GERMANOS do not have the legal rights to claim ownership over any of the above pointed equipment or parts of it, neither to receive any income out of its gathering and delivery.
