Cellular clean-up

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Cellular clean-up

The world has 4bn cellphone users, according to the latest industry figures. That could mean that thousands of tons of electronic gadgets, many of them containing toxic chemicals, will end up in landfills within a few years.

 

[risingtide]

Another area where the industry is trying to clean up its act is in battery chargers. Major handset manufacturers agreed last week to build phones with a standardised charger jack.

A good move, but only if the charger voltage is also standardised, or the phones are equipped with some overvoltage protection. If not then it is one more way to lose your cell phone, this time by blowing it up.

There seems to be a paragraph missing after para 1.

 

[cookiemonster]

So if there's a recycling plant in SA, surely it would be common sense to list it's details in the article? Why is that so much effort? http://mea.nokia.com/A4254052?storelocator_content_country=ZA

 

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So if there's a recycling plant in SA, surely it would be common sense to list it's details in the article? Why is that so much effort? http://mea.nokia.com/A4254052?storelocator_content_country=ZA

Yep it's pretty much as if the PTB can't be bothered. Anyone know what happened to the recycling plans for the brilliant energy-saving mercury containing lightbulbs?