Zoo needs recycled phones
Our mobile phones are useful to us, but, unfortunately, they can be deadly for our close animal relative; the gorilla. This is because they contain coltan, a mineral essential in producing capacitors.
The major habitat for primates, the Democratic Republic of Congo is where most of the world’s coltan is mined and this has opened the path to further poaching and deforestation.
Renowned conservationist, Jane Goodall began a mobile phone recycling program in Melbourne Zoo with the aim of recycling coltan and raise funds for park rangers to help prevent further gorilla poaching.
So far the program has been responsible for collecting over six-thousand phones and sponsoring park rangers in Maiko national park to patrol the area. The primate keeper of Melbourne Zoo, Andrea Edwards, says that gorilla numbers have dropped greatly, declining, in certain areas, by seventy percent in the last five years.
To participate in the program, phones can be left at Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary or a free postage stamp can be obtained via mobile broadband from zoo.org.au and from the O2 telecom provider site
Introduction Of Quality Broadband
Businesses need quality broadband that can effectively meet their requirements. Businesses that fall under small and medium enterprises require high speed internet bonded ADSL2+ connection that is cost friendly. This option is well facilitated by use of symmetric digital subscriber line or SDSL which is a new technology.
SDSL technology provides businesses with high speed internet connection that is reliable and efficient. This is ideal for home office based and small businesses. The launch of a new broadband that promises download speeds of 24Mbps is good news for such clients. Heart Telecom, has unveiled one such broadband that promises to meet business requirements of small and medium enterprises.
The broadband promises clients fast internet connections at an affordable cost that covers. Cost covers a monthly rate for both broadband and line rental that the telecoms company promises to be 33% cheaper and up to three times faster then BT.
The company according to Stephen Halstead the managing director of Heart Telecoms, promises high quality broadband that is value for money. Features of the broadband include unlimited web space, high speed and unlimited downloads, a fixed IP address and uploads of up to 1Mbps. The broadband provides affordable calling rates at 1.5p to landlines within the country. Calls to Western Europe and USA are equally affordable
Over 4 billion cell phones to recycle
Over 4 billion people on the planet have a subscription to a cell phone service, announced the Environmental Protection Agency of America. An incredible statistic with quite worrying consequences.
Figures produced by Nokia and 3 shows only 2 % of these people recycle their old cellular phones, even though the facility is usually free. This clearly display’s just how much needs to be done to increase people’s awareness.
Instead of buying one of the billion handsets made every year consumers need to consider a reconditioned model or at least carefully dispose of their old version.
It will be good for environment through energy saving and reduce the danger of certain chemicals leaking into the earth and polluting our rivers.
Phone manufacture involves plastics, copper and other precious metals, all these can be reused from dismantled parts. Mike Newman, whose company, Recellular, reconditions and dismantles handsets to be sold again, is concerned that the industry should be doing more. The figure of 130 million cell phones being put in the bin every year must be radically reduced with the help of company’s like Mazumamobile, Envirofone, Fonebank.
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