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Recycling Cellphones/Smartphones - What You Need To Know
Description
Smartphone or flip phone designed to make calls, text and use data.
Brands
Apple, Samsung, HTC, Windows, Blackberry
Data Risk Potential
High
End of Life Recycling Process
Manual disassembly for commodity recovery
Environmental Health and Safety Hazards
Embedded batteries
Recycling Facts
- Your average smartphone contains a significant amount of gold and silver. By not properly recycling their phones, Canadians dispose of around $6 million per year of gold and silver.
- Every year, more than 1 billion new smartphones are activated.
- The average smartphone is replaced every year and a half.
Why use Quantum?
- Quantum is one of the leading electronics recycling companies in Canada with over 325,000 square feet of cutting edge recycling facilities with headquarters in Toronto.
- Quantum is fully certified so that you can be certain that all of your electronics are recycled responsibly and securely.
- We issue a Certificate of Recycling for every load of electronic waste that we pick up.
Next Steps
Contact Quantum at 416-222-1773 or use the form to book an electronics pickup.