Most people would be stoked to find a brand-new mobile phone sitting under the tree for them this Christmas. If you are giving someone a mobile phone as a Christmas present this year, encourage them to recycle their current one with RE:MOBILE. By doing so, a...
We all know that gold is precious – it makes expensive jewellery and valuable medals – but did you know that gold is a vital component of your mobile phone? Gold is used in the circuit boards of mobile phones and other electronic devices because it is chemically...
New Zealand’s waterways will benefit from the thousands of Kiwis who have recycled their mobile phones in the past year. RE:MOBILE, a not-for-profit mobile phone recycling scheme which is managed by the TCF, has raised over $25,000 for charity partner, Sustainable...
With three Samsung Galaxy S10 mobile phones up for grabs, hundreds of Kiwis dug out their old mobile phones and posed them for #cellfies. These #cellfies (photos of cellphones) were posted on Facebook and Instagram throughout October to be counted as entries in our...
New Zealanders are being encouraged to recycle their unwanted mobile phones with RE:MOBILE in support of International E-Waste Day. Monday 14 October is the second annual International E-Waste Day and RE:MOBILE, New Zealand’s only accredited mobile phone recycling...
Rio Olympic Games medallist Eliza McCartney is no ordinary person, but she has a very ordinary problem – what to do with her old mobile phones? Eliza admits that until recently her old mobile phones have been sitting at home in a drawer because she didn’t know what to...
How many old mobile phones do you have lying around at home? Sixty-nine percent of New Zealand households say they have at least one unconnected mobile phone. This means there is more than 1,217,919 unconnected mobile phones gathering dust in drawers and cupboards in...
Our mobile phones are very precious to us. They are usually always within arms-reach and many of us would panic if we accidentally left the house without it. That’s until we get a new phone. The moment we get a new phone, our old one becomes unwanted. Most of us don’t...
Your old mobile phone may not be valuable to you, but it is to Sustainable Coastlines. Us Kiwis love our water – we love catching waves at the beach, skiing on the lake and popping manus into the river – so it is vital that we protect our water so it is remains...
All of the medals that will be awarded at the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo will be made from recycled mobile phones and other electronic waste. Mobile phones and other electronic waste contain miniscule amounts of gold, silver, and copper, which is used to...
