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Raise money for your school or community
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Help protect the environment
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Help people in developing countries to communicate
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Encourage others to recycle
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Divert phones from landfill
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Preserve natural resources
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There are currently around 24 million mobile phones
circulating in Australia
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That's an average of 2 unwanted handsets per
household!
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As well as precious metals like gold and silver,
mobile phones contain highly toxic substances such
as cadmium and mercury
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If mobiles are thrown in the bin, they end up in
landfill, where they can leak and pollute the
environment
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One mobile phone battery could potentially be
enough to pollute 600,000 litres of water
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Plastic from recycled handsets
is turned into council benches and fenceposts
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