Mon 30 Apr 2007
We’ve had an email from Sally Harrop, asking for ideas for recycling or reusing “normal” telephones:
By which I mean land line telephones. I have an ordinary handset and an old battery driven cordless phone (which must have dodgy innards) neither of which work now.
We are inundated by requests for old mobiles, usually because someone is making a buck somewhere, but I can’t find anything about recycling/safe disposal of not-mobile phones (except for large quantities - tonnes - from offices). Any ideas?
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Sarah
April 30th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
These phones are more useful than they might first appear - after storms, when the power is out, and cells don’t work, these older phones WORK. (The ones that don’t need to be plugged into both the phone jack and the power - just the phone jack.)
If you have an extra - they make great toddler toys.
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Trish
April 30th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I have a friend who decorates them with paint, beads, etc and ebays them.
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Barry
May 7th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Send them to Oxfam, if anyone is going to make a buck out of old phones it should be them, they have a specific scheme for mobile phones. The address to send them to is:
Oxfam Bring Bring Scheme
Freepost LON16281
London
WC1N 3BR
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Kayleigh
May 21st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
recycle mobile phones now .. !
bye .. x
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Karen - bakelite gal
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:24 am
Hi I collect and restore old telephones. If you have any old rotary dial British telephones I would be interested in buying them off you so I can restore/recycle them. Regards Karen
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Fishcake
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
What about putting one in the garden on a wall or something just to confuse people into thinking you have a garden phone lol.
Or asking if your local school or drama club wants them for art classes or props for plays etc?
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Isabel
August 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Schools and day cares would love them. My students enjoy talking on the pretend phones.
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ane vegane
June 8th, 2007 at 11:06 am
telephones are a mic and a speaker. you can used them as a dj-headphone/mic to a soundsystem!
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Stella-Rae
February 28th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hi I got 5 old broken phones I just want to know where I can send them to be recycled and how much I will get for doing so?
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Stella-Rae
February 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Hi I got 5 old broken phones I just want to know where I can send them to be recycled and how much I will get for doing so?.
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claire
June 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
people sell the old rotary dial and any of the princess style phones at swap meets. It’s a nostalgia thing…
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