Earn Cash for Selling Your Old Mobile Phone at Online Recycling Sites

Recycle your mobile and earn extra cash up to £400 each.

There are an estimated eighty million mobile phones in the UK, twenty million are upgraded every year and only three million of those are ever re-used or recycled.

This leaves a massive seventeen million phones each and ever year sat around in peoples desk drawers, under beds, in the attic or floating about elsewhere collecting dust.

There are numerous UK web based mobile phone recycling companies that will take old mobiles off your hands in exchange for cash. Selling your old mobile to one of these companies is quick and surprisingly easier than most people may think. Once you have found the recycling site you want to sell your phone too it is simply a case of typing in the model of phone into their website, hitting the search button and a price will instantly appear. If your happy to sell art that price, you proceed through the checkout, some companies will then send you a freepost jiffy bag in which you can return your phone in or provide you with the address online which can help speed up the process and allow you to get paid a little faster. Although you are provided with a freepost address with which you can obtain a certificate of posting from the post office, it is highly recommended to send the phone by recorded delivery for your own piece of mind. On receipt of your mobile you will be sent payment via cheque, direct to your bank or with some mobile recycling sites you can opt to be paid in gift vouchers for various high street stores. Most companies aim to have your payment with you in a maximum of 7 days although most will be a lot quicker than this.

Can i only sell a working handset?

No, most mobile recycling websites will buy your handset whether it is working or not even if it is damaged beyond repair. Obviously for damaged handsets the price that you receive will be reduced but will normally be between 10% - 90% of the standard price. Some mobile recycling sites will even give you an instant quote for non working models such as Love2Recycle.

How much will I get for my trading in my old mobile phone?

It is definitely worth shopping around to find the best deal for your old mobile. For example if you were selling a working Sony Ericsson K850i you would get different prices at each recycling site, Fonebank would give you £38, Mopay £35.75, Envirofone £34.90 and Mobilephonexchange £33. The maximum any site will pay for your old phone is £400. If you do decide to accept payment in gift vouchers this will be higher than the cash value. If you are feeling charitable you can donate your mobiles value to charities such as Save the Children, The British Red Cross, WWF, CRISIS, Breast Cancer Campaign, Cash for Kids and many more.

Where is my old mobile recycled / re-used after it is sold?

When you sell your mobile to one of these companies it could end up in a number of places, some are refurbished and sold within the UK, some will be sent abroad and re-sold in developing countries such as The Far East, South America or Africa. If the mobile is damaged and cannot be refurbished then it will be recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

How Does the Process Work?

Simply visit the websites and select the model of your old phone. On the following screen you will be instantly offered a price for your old mobile, if you are happy with the price that you are offered, register with the site and you will be provided with the address to return your old handset too. Once they received your old mobile it will be checked over and the cash will be paid to you either by cheque, bank transfer or shopping voucher depending on the site. Its worth checking all recycling sites to find out how much your phone is worth so you can make sure you are getting the highest price.

Which companies will recycle my mobile for money?

Mobile Phone Xchange are one of the UK's best mobile recycling sites offering the highest prices for many models of handsets. This year to date they have already recycled just under 300,000 mobile handsets which works out at around 35,000 every month.

Envirofone are one of the oldest and most popular mobile recycling companies. They were established in 2006 and have paid out just under £25 million for old phones to their customers. Envirofone also pay a lot of money to various charities.

Part of the ANOVO group, Love2Recycle pay great prices for old mobile handsets. Definitely worth a look as some of the highest prices for certain models can be found here.

Mopay were the very first mobile recycling company on the web after launching over 4 years ago. They have thousands of models listed and will pay up to £400 per handset. At Mopay you can either take the cash or choose to donate some of your payment to charity.

At Fonebank over 80,000 old mobiles are sent in every month from all over Europe to be reused or recycled. You can also return your old iPhone, Blackberry or PDA handset as well as standard mobile phones.

Earth Mobile are another of the oldest mobile phone recycling businesses after being launching 4 years ago. Earth Mobile will pay highest products for your old mobile or Blackberry handset.

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