How to recycle your old mobile phone by sending it by mail?

Il est désormais possible de donner son vieux téléphone portable en l'envoyant, pour recyclage ou réemploi, dans une enveloppe pré-afFranchie, a annoncé lundi l'éco-organisme ecosystem. Pour marquer le lancement de cette initiative solidaire à vocation pérenne, cent mobiles ainsi reconditionnés seront offerts "aux plus démunis" dans chacune des 35 villes étapes du Tour de France 2020, via des centres d'action sociale et le réseau Emmaüs.

Several tens of millions of unused laptops sleep in the drawers of the French (between 50 and 113 million, according to surveys).A reluctance to part with it which is explained in particular by their personal content, it is said at Ecosystem.To facilitate collection, individuals can now order a pre-apprunchia envelope, or print a pre-paied label to stick on an envelope, all for Free to the JedonneMontelephone site.Fr.

The phone sent to Deux-Sèvres

The laptop then arrives in Deux-Sèvres, in a reconditioning company, the "Bocage workshops", a company of collective interest member of Emmaüs, where personal data is first erased, insists Ecosystem, which evokes "aconfidence solution ".If its condition allows, it is then reconditioned, to be sold in Emmaüs stores, or, in 83% of cases, re -authorized for depollution and recycling.

During the health crisis, many solidarity associations were in demand for reconditioned mobiles, notes the same source. Outre l'enveloppe pré-afFranchie, les particuliers peuvent toujours déposer leurs vieux mobiles en déchetteries (où la quantité de flux empêche cependant le reconditionnement), ou dans des meubles de collecte disposés notamment dans certaines boutiques de téléphonie.Beyond laptops, Ecosystem manages the end of life of electrical and electronic devices.June has seen a record collection of 62.000 tonnes of this equipment, recovered at the end of three months of confinement.