Most of us replace our mobile phones every 2-3 years - but what do we do with our old one? Let it gather dust in a cupboard?
We're continually updating our tech, which generates more than 50m tonnes of e-waste globally. Yet only 20 per cent of this is recycled, which means tons of increasingly rare precious minerals, such as copper, tellurium, lithium, cobalt, manganese and tungsten, are winding up in landfill sites.
Tech recycling specialists Envirofone say there are key common misconceptions many of us have surrounding recycling our E-waste.