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Help the Earth and Your Wallet by Recycling Your Old Cell Phones

Posted by on Nov 6, 2010 in Articles, Make Money | 5 comments

Are you familiar with SellMyMobile.com? It’s a website that lets you recycle old sell phones by giving you cash for them. Up until now the site was only available to UK residents, but soon the site will be coming to the US as SellCell.com.

Green Live Style Magazine talks about the importance of recycling cell phones. You should keep in mind that:

Cell phones contain a very high level of toxic substances that enter the environment when discarded cell phones are incinerated or when rainwater leaches these chemicals out of the landfills into our drinking water. Cell phones are known to contain toxins [...]. These chemicals are listed by the EPA, as persistent toxins [...], meaning they do not readily breakdown and remain in the environment for years.

Many people just throw out old cell phones without even thinking twice, but you’re actually doing more harm than good. I often choose to go to eBay or Amazon to cell my old phones but many times small amount received for the phone is not even worth it.

SellMyMobile.com soon to be SellCell.com.

SellMyMobile.com (soon to be SellCell.com) gives you top dollars for your old cell phones. They offer comprehensive cell phone recycling comparison charts so that you can see which source will give you the highest amount of money for your phone. So not only is the site great for helping the earth, but you can also make some extra cash just by passing on your old cell phone to someone else who can use it.

As you can see from the image above, you can get a decent amount for newer phones. Of course I wouldn’t expect to get much for older phones, but anything is better than nothing at all right? With the holidays around the corner, now is a great time to clean out your closets and rack up the dollars with your old mobile phones.

It doesn’t specify when SellCell.com will be launching, but hopefully it’s soon enough so that we can all get some extra cash for Christmas!

Which mobile phone(s) are you going to sell?

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  • http://go.ian.so/ Ian Mayman

    I’ve seen TV adverts once or twice although far more I see adverts for mazuma.com. I put in my old phone and found I can get £33 for it, I thought it was only worth £5!

  • http://go.ian.so/ Ian Mayman

    It seems my iPhone 3GS is worth up to £248, I could sell that and for an extra £322 I could have an iPhone4. Tempting but I think I’ll save my money.

  • http://go.ian.so/ Ian Mayman

    Oh and that other site address is mazumamobile.com, but on both my mobiles, they will pay me less than SellMyMobile.com

    Looks like even my third mobile is worth about £4! It’s most advanced feature is predictive text! Just gotta try and find out which model it is.

  • http://reggiewallace.com/ Reggie

    Well I am in the US and this would be great for me as I have about 5 or 6 old cell phones that are doing nothing but taking up space, and used for the occasional ‘play phone’ for my daughter :)

  • http://berndsreise.beeplog.com/ Bernd Krause

    It’s a pitty, that such thing isn’t out for germany. We’re always saying, that we are the flagship in saving the enviroment. We should have a service like that.