and you, what do you do with your old mobile phone?

Since the emergence of GSM in the late nineties, around 8 billion mobile phones have been manufactured, and the stock of unused mobile phones is constantly growing. The situation is not sustainable in the long run.

Last year, 1.6 billion mobile phones were sold. In developed countries, this equipment is renewed on average every 18 to 24 months, while in emerging countries, the number of users is growing exponentially.
To reduce the environmental impact of electronic waste and contribute to better management of the rare resources used in the manufacturing of mobile phones - and above all, to create a virtuous dynamic around this issue - Orange has placed the collection, reconditioning and recycling of mobiles at the heart of its responsible corporate strategy.
If each one of use recycles just one mobile, we can recover 60,000 tons of precious metals, create solidarity-based employment, and take part in sustainable actions.

Orange commits its corporate responsibility and is cooperating with industrial figures and actors from the solidarity-based economy in a new field of activity.
In this respect, Orange’s policy is simple: the profits from this collection and recycling are entirely given to NGOs, associations and ecological organizations associated with recycling activities.
With Orange France and Orange Business Services, 12,000 mobiles treated in Ateliers du Bocage equal one government-sponsored job created.
100,000 mobiles collected equal one workshop and 5 jobs created in a similar activity in Benin, Burkina Faso or Madagascar.
And all of this starts for each one of us with one simple gesture: dropping off your old mobile at a recycling point.
See the principle? It’s simple.
What are you doing with your old mobile?


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