BBC NEWS | Technology | Old mobiles 'dumped' at Christmas

BBC NEWS reports that old mobiles were 'dumped' in large numbers at Christmas. The buzz around information technologies is still increasing yet the waste is not far behind. The attraction of new phones and improvements without clear and easy ways to recycle older phones is creating an ever larger recylcling problem. Phone manufacturers do not spend time creating head-sets that are less toxic but the race for gadget-feature-bloat in phones has forced phone-makers to focus on extra features and racing to sell new phones to users.