How can you raise money by collecting mobile telephones? According to a post in a re-useit list, some school is doing it. I'm intrigued about the economics of collectng toxic waste, particularly as the list posteris offering to drive over a fair proportion of Sydney to collect them.
Or should I just report the poster to the shadowy guys as a terrorist collecting materials for remote detonation devices? {:-).
I guess if it "sounds green" or like "recycling" everyone will crawl all over it, Similar to the CFL "scam"
Maybe they will ride bicycles/walk all over sydney to collect them :)
Even that will still result in them ultimately eating more food to provide the human power and more "greenhouse gas" will be "emitted" in the process. You cant win
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What they might want to to is extract the gold from the electronics - that might be more worthwhile with the current prices. How much you would get per phone is another matter
A little OT, this link has WEEE scrap prices in Europe, some to component level, interesting for a look.
our kids school collected some mobiles for kindy/preschool play props. Most of the phones are better than mine....
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