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Phone recycling

Phone recycling is also important to our environment.
Whether combined with other computer waste or not, we also collect phones for recycling.
This service is only for businesses and not for individuals.
Would you like to turn in old cell phones?
Then we will pick them up from you free of charge, provided that together – possibly in combination with computer waste, the total weight exceeds 200 kilos. If the total weight is less than 200 kilos, costs will be added, see PRICE LIST.

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How does it work?

Want to have phones recycled?
Then follow the roadmap to the right and we’ll take care of the rest.
Can’t figure it out?
Then contact us, we are ready to help you.

Step 1: Make an appointment

Click “Make appointment” and choose icon for “Phone”

Step 2: Number of kilograms

Indicate whether it is more or less than 200 kg. How much is 200kilo?

Step 3: Schedule date

Make an appointment and you will receive a confirmation email with a pick-up date.

Step 4: Transportation

On the appointed day, our drivers will pick everything up.

Step 5: Certificate

Within 5 working days you will receive an environmental certificate, transport document and the zero invoice.

Recycling cell phones

If you think your batch of depleted phones still has value, then you as a company can also turn in the old cell phones by letting us buy them up. When buying up your depreciated cell phones, it is very important that there is no access code and no Cloud account on the old cell phones, because then we cannot buy up your cell phones.
Another aspect is the confidential information that may still be on your old cell phones for recycling.
We can destroy the data on your old phone certified.
By weight, cell phones are only barely a part of the mix we recycle each year.
Yet proper recycling of phones is important for our environment.
At IT Recycling, phones are therefore separated and handled separately.

Phone recycling process

First of all, there is a battery in every phone.
This is usually a lithium battery.
According to the new WEEELABEX standards, the battery must be removed from the phone before further processing.
Click here if you want to learn more about lithium battery recycling.
Especially with an iPhone, this is a rather tricky job.
Another problem with lithium batteries is that they are quite a fire hazard.
Especially if they get damaged and short-circuit internally, batteries can spontaneously catch fire.
Therefore, in IT recycling, the lithium batteries from the phone are stored separately and specially fireproof.
Furthermore, every phone has a TFT screen.
This screen contains mercury.
The WEEELABEX standard stipulates that screens larger than 10 square centimeters must be removed from the phone before the phone recycling process can continue.
So each phone must be taken apart separately.
What remains of the phone after the battery and screen are removed is for phone recycling.

Phone recycling and data destruction

With most phones we receive for recycling, we have been instructed to destroy the sensitive data on them.
The best way to destroy the data on a phone is to destroy the entire phone with our hard drive shredder.
Because the memory chips in a phone are very small, a fine shredder is needed.

Phone recycling and reuse of a spent smartphone

The very best way of recycling is not recycling, but reusing the old phone.
With phones that we receive, we look at whether they are still – as phones – possibly usable.

In practice, however, this is very rare because very often a depleted phone still has a password and/or Cloud account on it.
Passwords can be bypassed with a hard reset but a Cloud account renders any phone unusable.
Want to know more about data destruction on phones?
Then read more about it in the blog on data destruction for phones.
Do you still have a pile of old cell phones lying around that are no longer being used by your employees Then have them picked up for recycling and or data destruction.
Then contact us today and we will make sure the phones are fully recycled and all sensitive data is destroyed.