根据耶鲁大学环境 360(Yale Environment 360) 报告(Report)，“尽管对能源技术至关重要的金属成本和需求很高，但这种金属很少被回收”。据耶鲁(Yale)环保公司称，大约有 50 磅黄金(Gold)和 550 磅白银。万部智能手机。这只是您应该回收智能手机的原因之一。
回收智能手机的原因
我们在上面谈到了黄金和白银(gold and silver)两种贵金属。把那些珍贵的东西都扔掉是不可行的。我们很少考虑制造智能手机的内容，因为我们太忙于使用它们。
其他原因包括污染物(polluting agents)。智能手机的某些部件无法回收，如果它们与水、空气或土壤混合，可能会破坏我们的环境。因此，垃圾填埋场充满了贵金属和污染物，它们共同破坏了周围区域，以至于它们无法用于任何用途。
您不应该扔掉智能手机的另一个原因是它们含有某些稀有材料(rare materials)。如果这些稀有材料用完，就没有电子产品——或者换句话说，很难买到高质量的电子产品，包括一部新的智能手机。这些稀有金属可以回收并用于新手机或任何其他类型的电子产品，这样供应就不会中断，从而避免了对低质量替代品的需求，这些替代品可能会制造出不足以让我们每天玩的智能手机，夜晚。
如果您喜欢智能手机，请不要在购买新手机或当前手机损坏后将其扔进垃圾箱。给他们回收。您可以将它们以一定价格出售给接受损坏的智能手机或二手手机的商店。这些商店可能会以较低的价格出售可以使用的手机，并将无法使用的智能手机送到不同公司的回收部门进行翻新。如果无法进行翻新，智能手机和平板电脑等制造商可以在不同的新产品中使用手机部件，这将大有帮助。
如何回收智能手机
在一篇关于电子垃圾影响(effects of e-waste)的文章中，我们写道，几乎所有电子产品都包含一些不可降解的部件，以及一些在与空气或湿气相互作用时会破坏大气的部件——使其不适合种植植物或生活在邻近的地方到垃圾填埋场。已经造成了很多伤害。虽然政府正在采取自己的步骤，但它也成为公民的责任。他们不应将包括智能手机在内的电子产品视为普通垃圾。它们不应该被扔进垃圾箱。
有两种方法可以回收智能手机。我们在上面的段落中讨论了一种方法。将不使用的智能手机(Sell the smartphone)卖给二手手机店。有很多，其中一些提供接送服务。您可以在本地或Internet上找到此类商店。您也可以使用在线搜索引擎找到您所在地区的二手智能手机买家，然后使用任何地图应用程序来获取确切位置。
第二个想法是将它们送回制造商(send them back to the manufacturer)。现在几乎所有的电子制造商都建议回收这些商品。只需打开任何电子巨头的网站，您就会获得一个地址，您可以将您的手机和其他不使用的电子产品发送到该地址。
Smartphone manufacturers are already thinking along the same lines. In their People & Planet Report, Nokia outlines its goal to create a “recycling culture,” and its plans to investigate the drivers and options for recycling locally, reports Microsoft.
请记住(Remember)，如果您在阻止未使用的智能手机，那么您就是在阻止低成本手机的制造和销售。您回收智能手机的行为有助于为新手机（或任何其他类型的电子产品）预算较低的人制造更便宜的手机。如果您卸下电池并小心地随身携带智能手机，以便将来有一天回头看，那也没关系。在这种情况下，只需确保将手机及其电池都放在干燥的地方。
回收智能手机前的注意事项
当您决定出售智能手机时，您必须小心并确保您已删除其中的所有数据，并且很难或不可能恢复它。以下是您可能需要采取的一些预防措施：
- 注销(Log)所有在线帐户并删除浏览历史记录。
- 备份您的联系人、短信、照片、文档等，然后从手机中删除这些数据。
- 在丢弃手机之前，请从手机中取出SIM卡和任何内部存储设备，例如 microSD 卡。(SIM)
- 将手机恢复出厂设置以确保系统和应用程序数据、设置、下载的应用程序、帐户数据等全部被删除。
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How and why you should recycle Smartphones
According to the Yаle Environment 360 Report, “Despite the high cost and demand оf metalѕ critical for energy teсhnologies, very little of this metal іs reсycled”. Aсcording to Yale, a company into environment protection, there is 50lb of Gold and 550lb of silver in apрrox. million smartphones. That is јust one of the reasons why you should recycle your smartphones.
Reasons to Recycle Smartphones
We have talked about gold and silver two precious metals above. It is not feasible to simply throw away all those precious things. We seldom give a thought to what goes into making smartphones because we are too busy using them.
Among the other reasons are, polluting agents. Some parts of smartphones cannot be recycled and they, if mixed with water, air or soil, can damage our environment. Thus, the landfill sites are filled with both precious metals as well as polluting agents which together spoil the surrounding areas to an extent that they cannot be used for anything.
Another reason why you should not throw away smartphones is that they contain certain rare materials. If these rare materials are exhausted, there will be no electronics – or in other words, it will become hard to get good quality electronics, including a new smartphone. These rare metals can be recycled and used in new phones or any other types of electronics so that the supply is not interrupted thereby avoiding the need for lower-quality substitutes that may create smartphones that are not good enough for us to play with them day and night.
If you love smartphones, do not throw them away into dustbins after buying new phones or when the current one is damaged. Give them for recycling. You may sell them for a price to shops that accept broken smartphones or second-hand cellphones. These shops may sell usable phones for a lower price and send the unusable smartphones to recycling departments of different companies so that they can be refurbished. If refurbishment is not possible, the manufacturers of smartphones and tablets, etc. can use the phone parts in different new products that go a long way.
How to Recycle Smartphone
In an article on the effects of e-waste, we wrote that almost all electronics contain some non-degradable parts and some parts that when interacting with air or moisture, can spoil the atmosphere – making it unfit to grow plants or live in places adjacent to landfills. Already plenty of damage is done. Though the government is taking its own steps, it also becomes the responsibility of citizens. They should not treat electronics, including smartphones, as normal garbage. They should not be thrown into dustbins.
There are two ways you can recycle smartphones. We’ve talked about one method in the above paragraphs. Sell the smartphone you are not using, to a second-hand phone shop. There are many, some of them offering pick-up facilities. You can find such stores locally or on the Internet. You may also use an online search engine to find out second-hand smartphone buyers in your area and then use any maps app to get the exact location.
The second idea is to send them back to the manufacturer. Almost all electronic manufacturers are now recommending recycling of the goods. Just open the website of any electronics giant and you will get an address to where you can send your phones and other electronics that you are not using them.
Smartphone manufacturers are already thinking along the same lines. In their People & Planet Report, Nokia outlines its goal to create a “recycling culture,” and its plans to investigate the drivers and options for recycling locally, reports Microsoft.
Remember, if you are holding back unused smartphones, you are holding back the manufacture and sale of low-cost cellphones. Your act of recycling smartphones helps in creating cheaper handsets for people having a lower budget for new phones (or any other kind of electronics). It is okay if you remove the battery and keep the smartphone with you carefully to look back at it someday in the future. In that case, just make sure you keep both the phone and its battery in a dry place.
Precautions to take before recycling smartphones
When you decide to sell a smartphone you have to be careful and ensure that you have deleted all data from it and that it is difficult or impossible to recover it. Here are a few precautions you may want to take:
- Log out of all online accounts and delete browsing history.
- Back up your contacts, text messages, photos, documents, etc., and then erase this data from the phone.
- Remove the SIM card and any internal storage such as a microSD card from the phone before you dispose of it.
- Perform a factory reset of the phone to ensure that system and application data, settings, downloaded apps, account data, etc are all removed.
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