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Cash for your Mobile Phone Mazuma Mobile has prevented over 4 million mobile phones from reaching landfills by giving consumers cash for their used handsets.
ENVIRONMENTAL Reuse is the most effective form of recycling, as it prevents the need for additional virgin resources to make new products.
SOCIAL Mazuma Mobile enables those in emerging markets to have access to new technology and to the Internet.
ECONOMIC By repurposing the phone, or recycling its components, Mazuma increases the lifespan of a mobile phone.
Mazuma Mobile offers cash for your old handset. Mazuma uses an onsite Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive-compliant facility to test and categorise mobiles for reuse. Fully working and repairable phones are reused by approved reuse partners; non-repairable phones are recycled by approved recycling partners. Since 2007, Mazuma Mobile has paid customers a total of $275 million and recycled over 4 million mobile phones. Why a Sustainia100 solution? With millions of consumers storing old handsets, Mazuma Mobile provides an economical and ecological solution for the hundreds of thousands of mobiles destined for landfills, or left unused in kitchen drawers, each month. By reusing the recycled handsets in emerging countries, Mazuma Mobile is able to improve the quality of life for, and provide Internet access to, those in developing countries for whom new technology is not readily available. Mazuma Mobile has already established long-term relationships with approved partners in China and Africa. The next step should be to address end-of-life challenges for the mobile phones recycled in developing countries.
Developed in UK, Australia
Deployed in UK, Australia
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