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O2 recycles old handsets
O2 HAS LAUNCHED a service where people can recycle their old mobile phones for wads of cash.
While this sort of 'feel good for recycling and get some cash too' service is already available with online services such as Envirofone and Mazuma, O2 is the first network operator to offer it.
The service, which O2 snappily calls 'O2 Recycle', works along the same principles as the other online alternatives.
Users enter the details of their device on the website, get an estimated value, print off a receipt while a pre-paid postage bag is sent to them, then they put the phone and receipt in the bag and then send the lot back.
The bags will also be on sale in O2 stores. O2 has not yet announced how much is potentially going to be offered for handsets.
O2 PR Manager Nick Wilkins confirmed it was the frst operator to provide this service saying, "No one else has this and on such a large scale."
For every device sent to them, O2 will donate £1 to the "It's Your Community" charity while the products are sold on to global markets by Redeem.
Redeem has also opened it up for non-O2 customers, and as well as phones it will also accept MP3 players, digital cameras, GPS devices and other consumer electronics gadgets. µ
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Virgin Mobile have been doing this for at least 18 months - you select the phone you're trading it, they tell you how much you'll get, send you a bag and on receipt of the working phone they credit that amount to your mobile account.
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=trade.in.or.recycle.howdoi.sm105
O2 has been recycling phones for a long time now. Paying 20-40 pounds each for a phone that requires a flash and case change. These are then RESOLD and not put through the shredder.
The inq has become very lazy recently, so many stories referring to websites and providing no link.
In this case I thought maybe I would let you off as www.o2.co.uk isn't a hard one to guess, but they say jack about it on their front page, and to be honest I couldn't be bothered to dig further.