There's Gold In Them There Cell Phones
The report runs the numbers on the financial value waiting to be extracted from dead mobiles: if all closet-sitting cell phones were recycled, they would yield $314 million worth of metal; they would also comprise 10% of the nation's recycled silver market, and 18% of its recycled gold market. If all the retired phones were recycled as well as the dust-collectors, the metal would be worth almost $400 million.
Hmmm. Now if we could only "recycle" their habitual users . . .
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Add mine to the junk heap. Probably because I'm have a good deal of pent-up hostility towards cell phones, I couldn't get the first one I finally broke down and bought to work right. I ended up jabbing the wrong button, and while trying to reset the time for the screen to stay backlit, I evidently set it to zero by mistake, so, of course, the screen will not light up at all now. But let me just ask you, who would design a phone that just by pushing a button on it you could cause it to become totally dysfunctional? Fellow tenants started complaining about my angry screams!