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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Many Lives of Mobile Phones

April 22, 2008 | CorinneRamey

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e-waste, earth day, m-waste, mobile, nokia, recycle, waste

In the United States, a used mobile phone is likely to end up in the trash can, or more likely, in the back of a desk drawer for several years, collecting dust. But in the rest of the world, this just isn't the case. Mobile phones -- or even parts of mobile phones -- are reused, recycled, and refurbished.

Jan Chipchase, a phone anthropologist for Nokia, has seen the way that old mobile phones transform into new ones while traveling for Nokia around the world.