The average mobile phone user replaces their phone every 18 months, usually keeping the old handset as an unnecessary spare in a drawer or throwing it away.

However your disused mobile phone has value!  Taking the simple step to donate your rejected phone for recycling will give the environment a double helping hand.  By recycling your mobile phone with us, you will not only reduce waste, you will also raise money to help our vital conservation work.

Any phone that is no longer working can be taken to bits and used as parts in industry.  Working phones are re-sold as affordable mobiles in developing countries, bringing the benefits of improved communications to developing economies.

In terms of the cost to the environment it is better to re-use than to recycle.  But if a phone cannot be re-used it is better to recycle it than to bin it. Phones of any age and condition can be donated. Each phone that can be re-used will redeem £3.50 towards our work.

Last year around £4000 was raised for Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s work through the donation of disused mobile phones. Please consider recycling your mobile with us.

Collect a special freepost envelope at Plumgarths or send it to the freepost address and clearly mark your envelope: In support of Cumbria Wildlife Trust:  FREEPOST, Shp Solutions, Lancaster.

If you are a business or a school and have accumulated a number of phones, please contact us and we can arrange for these to be collected, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it