#TBT: Saskia Fisher Inspires Through Recycling Phones to Protect Rainforests

• Energy saving: Do you know that you can save energy by recycling your cell phone? Recyclable phones save enough energy to charge the laptop for about 44 hours. Every year, record 130 million mobile phones are lost, and if recycled, enough energy can be supplied to more than 24,000 families per year. • It helps to control the mining process. Mobile phones are made from valuable minerals that become increasingly scarce and can be recycled if recycled. From 1 million recycling phones you can recycle 35,274 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold, 33 pounds of palladium. This will reduce the amount of minerals used to make a new phone

Tropical rainforests are the oldest ecosystem on Earth. So, when you think about the rainforest, you may not be able to think about a renewable phone. However, Emerging Explorer, an engineer and physicist, Topher White, has developed a smart new way to monitor illegal poaching and logging in these threatened ecosystems. Topher's innovative monitoring approach involves recycling connected mobile phones in the forest. These phones pick up chainsaw and automobile sounds and send sounds to the cloud via a standard mobile network for real-time analysis in the cloud. Based on the test results, alerts are usually handed over to the ranger or caregiver via SMS. The more they get there early, the less damage they will cause.

Cell phones are worth after their intended use. But these cell phone recyclers have very little value and depend on a large number of mobile phones to earn money. The economic value of renewable mobile phones fall into two categories; the reclaimed units are resold to mobile phones that are not valuable to retail consumers who can recycle end users and precious metals. In 2010, the University of California at Santa Barbara announced a research that reported the value of reuse and recycling of mobile phones, "Reuse of mobile phones and economics of recycling". According to research, the average cost of mobile phone reclamation companies ReCellular, PaceButler, and RMS in 2006 was $ 2.10, and the average revenue for these phones was $ 17. Regardless of which recycling method, cell phone playback is more profitable than recycling internal components.