Excited about getting a new phone this Christmas? Join the club. But what will you do with your old one? According to a new survey conducted by Tesco Mobile, two million of us will simply throw our poor old handsets away during the festive season - even if they're working perfectly. That's 20% of all the Brits who are getting a new mobile phone.
The problem appears to be that we don't know what options we have to recycle our mobiles. Only 18% of us do recycle. What about the 62% who don't throw them out or recycle? We just leave them lying round at home, of course.
You might have guessed that there's a Tesco tie-in coming at the end of this story. The company has set up a dedicated recycling service, with rewards of gift vouchers or Tesco Mobile airtime. Of course, an alternative is the Children In Need phones appeal...
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