Local council household waste and recycling sites are expecting their busiest periods of the year this Christmas as people take unwanted electrical goods, garden waste, clothes and other household rubbish to be disposed of correctly.

Every year local recycling sites handle over 100,000 tonnes of materials of which 70% are either reused or recycled.

To avoid the Christmas rush its recommended that anyone planning at Christmas clear out plans ahead. Most household recycling centres are open 7 days a week but are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

Mobile phone recycling websites are also preparing for their busiest time of the year as people who are getting new phones for Christmas dispose of their old ones to earn extra cash for the January sales.

Many people are now aware of recycling and climate change however the message that old items have a cash value is not being pushed enough to the public.

People in the UK are aware that by recycling their old items like mobile phones, electronics and other items is important to helping the environment, but the fact that businesses are turning their unwanted items into other things is not quite so well known.

One great example of a business that turns old waste into items that are sold to the public is the Cooperative Group. They recycle all the waste from their offices and turn it into toilet paper which is later sold to the general public.

Mobile phone recycling companies will repair and reuse old mobile phones in many third world countries if they have a value. If they cannot be repaired the components will be sold and used in new electronic items and the gold on the circuit boards will be smelted down and then sold on.

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People in the UK are upgrading their phones faster than ever before due to many wanting to get the latest Smartphone that has everything on. This is leading to many more standard handsets getting recycling before they are going out of fashion.

Smartphones like the Apple iPhone or HTC Hero are the must have gadgets as they have many features which means people can do much more than ever on their mobile phone. This list of things includes surfing the internet at high speeds whilst on the go, using social media sites, taking pictures, storing hundreds of songs and downloading the latest applications.

Mopay, one of the top mobile recycling sites in the UK have recently released figures that shows that people are recycling the latest handsets well before they become obsolete.

Mobile phone recycling is starting to increase in the UK after the press recently revealed that the UK isn’t hitting EU recycling targets.

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