Environment

10 Reasons To Buy A Refurbished Phone

10 Reasons To Buy A Refurbished Phone
If you’re looking to buy a new phone here at Mazuma, you’ll notice that you can save a lot of money by opting for a refurbished model, but is this a good enough reason to choose a refurbished phone ahead of a brand new one? Sometimes people can be a little apprehensive about buying a refurbished phone, so here are ten reasons why it might…

Get Paid For Helping The Environment

At Mazuma Mobile we can give you excellent prices on your old, used mobile phones. Mobile phone recycling is a big thing to us because it not only provides us with a means of business, it also allows us to save the planet. We know that throwing away an old mobile phone, particularly if it is still working, results in a 100% loss for everybody.…

Be a Responsible Consumer with Mazuma Mobile

Being a responsible consumer is about more than just buying stuff to boost the economy. We spend a great deal of time studying consumer psychology (because we’re the kind of folks who are easily obsessed by such things) and its relation to things like mobile phone recycling. We’re experts in our field, and love what we do because the end result means everyone wins –…

Environmental Impact of Unwanted Mobile Phones

There are two major concerns that much of the world faces today: the financial crisis and the environment. Although the shape of global markets looks pretty dire at the moment, the situation will improve in time as basic economics dictates that boom always follows bust. Sadly, the long-term outlook for the environment is not quite so predictable.

Leave Mobile Phones Off Landfills

Each year we Brits upgrade more than 20 million old mobile phones (some as new as a few months old!). In theory, that’s 20 million handsets annually winging their way to your local landfill for a dull thousand years or so spent degrading and decaying. Well, we assume that’s what they do. We quite simply don’t know how long it takes for materials like plastic…

Eco Friendly Solutions to Electrical Waste

The toaster exploded, your old mobile phones finally gave up the ghost, the washing machine just... stopped, and the ancient electric room heater has just about packed in. We live in a fairly disposable world, but it can’t stay this way for ever. Badly disposed-of e-waste can cause such environmental damage as widespread abandonment of hazardous chemicals, the loss of valuable resources (rare, valuable metals…