According to the polling of national Omnibus for Asda the households of the United Kingdom are sitting on a virtual mountain of unused digital gadgets that are worth millions of pounds.

According to the findings of the poll there could be around 35 million old mobile phones that are unused as well. More than a million homes in Britain own greater than five old unused mobile handsets rattling around in the drawers of the kichen.

These mobile phones' trade-in value along is estimated by the research body to be GBP 700 million.

Old mobile handsets are priced for their recycling and refurbishment value. In the United Kingdom or overseas there has been a routine reselling of the refurbished technology.

It is worth mentioning here that the specialist companies price the recycled mobile phones highly. These specialist companies are capable of extracting rare metals and using them in other devices.