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Being a good recycle store, you should expect more from the top UK network of O2 Recycle. They offer reasonable prices and the money of the profit is donated into the Think Big Charity instead of taking it. If you do not intend to compare the top price, just be sure that the conditions on how they do the evaluation of your phone's price are checked (you can look for it at the specific phone page). You can sell the following items in O2 Recycling: game consoles, cameras, sat navs, mobiles and tablets. You can exchange the gadgets with bank transfer, cheques or it is also possible to donate all the money to the Think Big Charity.

About O2 recycle

Mobile phone recycle has been a booming business in the recent past it has been acknowledged that there is a need to have a mechanism for proper disposal of mobile phones as well as other electrical devices. Most of these devices have toxic substances making them and therefore improper disposal would have had detrimental effects on the environment as these substances would be released to the ground.

To aggravate the matter, it was illegal to throw away an old mobile phone together with other types of household waste. This led to most people preferring to have the old gadgets gather dusts in their drawers and shelves. The matter has been solved by the entry of recyclers into the market. One such recycler is O2 Recycle

A review of O2 Recycle

O2 offers their customers an opportunity to dispose their old and damaged gadgets in an appropriate manner. This comes with the added advantage that one is able to earn some money from the sale of the old gadget.

Launched in 2009, 02 Recycle has a wealth of experience as far as recycling of old mobile phones is concerned. It has actually been in the recycle business longer than Vodafone recycle and even Orange Recycle in which case you can be sure of the safety incorporated. To strengthen its resume, O2 is United Kingdom's largest mobile network provider. This enables it to pay some of the highest rates for the old mobile phones and the appliances that they get from their customers.

Statistics show that more than 100 million old handsets are lying idle and unused. O2 recycle acknowledges that these mobile phones can still be recycled or have some of their parts used again. In this case therefore the company's main objective is to reduce landfill by disposing the mobile phones in the right manner as well as lengthen the life of the mobile phones by recycling those that still can be used.

How O2 recycle works

O2 recycle incorporates simplicity in the selling process. You however need to be sure that you are getting the best price for your mobile phone. You can compare the prices offered by the different mobile phone recyclers from the website.

Visit O2 recycle website and key in details of the mobile phone that you want to recycle. This is just the make or the model of the phone. You should be in apposition to deduce how much you could make from the sale of the mobile phone to them.

Key in your details and be sure to indicate your preferred mode of payment. It is also important that you indicate the correct postal address through which 02 Recycle will send you a freepost padded envelope. The postage process also incorporates simplicity in that you do not have to use your coin to post your gadget to them. The envelope comes with a freepost address label.

You just have to put the old handset in the envelope and drop it at the nearest post box. Be advised to upgrade the post with insurance to cover you against any loss incase the gadget gets lost before getting to them.

Payment Options for O2 Recycle

You will be spoilt for choice as pertaining to the payment option that you could choose. High speed payment ways incorporated include;
  1. Cheque - the cheque is dispatched after 02 Recycle have received your old mobile phone and examined it to ensure it is in the conditions indicated in the original order.
  2. Direct transfer into your bank account. It is one of the fastest ways of payment.
Although O2recycle does not incorporate charity donations in their payment, it supports the "think big" scheme giving out a pound for every transaction made.