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Recycling for charity – the ultimate karma combination? Want to do your bit for our environment and support a charity at the same time? Here’s a guide to the main phone and gadget recycling charities.
How exactly does charity mobile phone and gadget recycling work?
As most electronics are able to be recycled these days, many charities have started mobile phone and gadget collection campaigns, helping to raise vital funds. Most charities will send out bags, in which you can pop your used gadget or mobile phone. Other than having to walk to a post box, that is about it – no postage charge.
The phone will then be sent directly to a recycling centre, with the charity you have chosen to support receiving funds from the recycling centre for each gadget received. Simple and straightforward! An alternative to the bag, you can easily pop your phone into an envelope and complete the address yourself from the details listed on the charitys website. Other ways to deliver your phone is by leaving it in charity shop collection bins.
And who offers charity mobile phone recycling?
or…where do we start?! With a long list of charities involved in this scheme, you are bound to find a charity of your choice.
NB: The links below are not intended to earn us any commission and are purely there to help you navigate to the charity website. If for some reason any commission is earned we will donate it to charity.
Direct donations to charity:
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The recently merged Help The Aged/Age Concern (Changing their name to Age UK in 2010) will receive £3 per mobile phone. If you are recycling over 35 mobiles, they can organise a free collection. |
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The British Red Cross receive up to £30 per mobile phone that is recycled. You will need to register and a bag or collection box will be sent to you. |
| £3.50 will go to the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity regardless of how old your mobile is. You can request a freepost envelope. | |
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Oxfam will provide a freepost bag or courier collection. Your old mobile phone is then recycled and the money is donated to Oxfam. |
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The RNIB will collect phones by calling the number on their website or filling in a registration form. |
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The Fire Fighters Charity will send you an envelope for up to 2 mobile phones and will receive between £5-7 per phone. |
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(Parents and Abducted Children Together) will pass any mobiles they receive from you to RPC Recycling, who will then donate money back to the charity. |
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ask for donated phones to be sent securely to them. They also ask for the charger, although not essential, they do receive an additional small donation. Over 20 phones and they will send a courier to collect. |
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Via the Reclaim-IT website you can donate to Against Breast Cancer, see their website for details. |
Indirect charity collections:
These companies will take the phones and then donate money to charities.
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Recycle4Charity will take your mobile (and other items) and donate to a charity on your behalf. You regsiter with a specific benefactor listed and will be sent bags etc with the benefactors name on. So, you could either donate to a charity you are working for, perhaps have a whipround for old mobiles from friends and colleagues, and donate to your favourite charity. |
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ShpforCharity recycle phones for a number of different charities, from animal rescue centres to air ambulances, childrens charities to horticultural centres. |
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Bag It Up have a number of ‘bring banks’ that benefit a range of charities. |
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Office Green will accept mobile phones that are sent to them using a freepost address, with a donation going to charity. |
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Recycling Appeal collects phones to help both UK and European charities. |
Are we missing any great charities who run paid recycling schemes? If so please let us know by leaving a comment below.
Charity Recycling,
fonesforsafety® is a mobile phone recycling scheme which turns used mobile phones into reconfigured “999 only” phone alarms for victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Mobile phone recycling allows for the fonesforsafety® project to continue providing reconfigured fonesforsafety® phone alarms to the police and domestic violence support agencies who can then deliver them to beneficiaries free of charge.
If you would like to make an individual donation of you unwanted mobile phone(s) – you can simply pop ‘em into any old envelope (reuse!) and address them to: fonesforsafety® FREEPOST LON 15948 – London SE17 1BR (no postage needed). Batteries and chargers are optional – unwanted mobile phones of any make, age or condition will make a difference.