It has been a long time since the campaign to save the planet earth started. At the outset, the campaign chiefly focussed on matters such as urging people to concentrate on saving the trees and motivating people to walk and cycle instead of using cars. Then comes the concept of recycling. These ideas were propagated on a large scale by people who want to let others know that they know everything and are superior to others.

A relatively new entrant to this stream of ideas is the recycling of mobile phones. The government has been providing tax breaks and other advantages to recyclers to motivate them.

Public announcements are made on a daily basis so as to ensure that people resell their old phones and buy new ones. All these are measures are meant to save the planet earth.

A major incentive that has been going rounds was to provide cash to people who came forward to dump their old phones and purchase new ones.

Consequently, there will be interest expressed by the users for some extra cash. Though the cash that is being obtained through this recycling process is very paltry, it is much better than dumping them into the Thames and causing pollution.

In fact there is no loss for either parties-be it the users on one side and the government on the other side. This is because of the fact the replacement for the old mobile that are given by the government are imported thus giving the government the much needed taxes and other benefits.

This part of their story is concealed to the public, thus creating a win-win situation for everyone and everything involved in this process.

Million of mobile phones are sold every year with an equal number being manufactured. After the product lifetime, these products are disposed somewhere and dumping them s can prove to be disastrous.

Efforts should be initiated to ensure that these handsets are not dumped but rather recycled an reused to better effect. Thus, recycling mobile is a good alternative to all environmental problems created these handy devices.