In 1990 the average number of mobile phones estimated to be in use worldwide was 12.4 million. By 2012 this figure is estimated to be over 5 Billion and rising
If we look back, just a few years when mobile phones were at their infancy and mobile phone recycling was never really a consideration. The industry has flourished and boomed with ever advancing technology and facilities. Prices plummeted and connection rates rocketed, which perhaps makes it easy to understand and appreciate the issues that prompted governments to develop and bring in specific environmental legislation to help protect the environment.
Recognising that mobile phones were both re-useable and recyclable. In July 2006 the European commission released a directive (www.weee-directive.com which made it law for all surplus mobile telephones to be reused or recycled in an environmentally friendly way.
The industry now champion mobile phone recycling as an integral part and stewardship of providing new handsets. Supporting all models such as Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic, Apple, LG, Samsung and many more manufactures and networks like Vodafone, O2, Orange, T mobile. Our environment agency endorsed and approved recovery solutions provide sustainable global mobile phone recycling services which encourage the reuse and recycling of surplus handsets
Taking responsibility
Today, organisations have to manage their corporate responsibility for recycling as well as their bottom lines. EMC understand this and has structured a simple way to help you get the optimum environmental solution for your phones.
With decades of leadership in environmental stewardship and recycling technology innovation, a global client base, matched with industry specific process and expertise, along with a proven ability in global mobile phone recycling. EMC is uniquely position to work with customers based both in the UK, and around the world. We can provide the framework and support to address the environmental challenges that work for both your business and the environment.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
Our Customers benefit from
- Total account management utilising a personal account manager
- Complimentary evaluations of handsets recycling policy
- Free worldwide collection service
- Experience and trained engineers to assess your equipment
- Fast asset valuation
- Secure handling
- Data clearance
- Quick & efficient payment
- Environmental Reporting
Making it sustainable
Sustainability is more than just a concept. It is the driving force for everything we do and underpins every aspect of our service.
It can be seen in the fact that our priority is to recover and reuse mobile phones ahead of recycling. The majority of operational phones are suitable for regeneration and reuse, so we provide a BPEO (best practicable environmental option) sustainable recovery service that allows potentially toxic handsets to be safely removed from the waste chain.
We have spent much time, and take great pride in ensuring that the ethos and fundamentals that shape our business fulfill the needs of our clients, customers and partners around the world. It is very import to us to be crystal clear on our strategies for both our environmental and corporate purpose and how we can best support our global clients.
This is a great time of change and development and we strive to be at the forefront of the very best mobile phone recycling technologies so that we may hold a safety net behind an ever changing market place.
Understanding and managing our corporate responsibility along with the environmental and social issues, whilst providing a really ethical recycling solution can bring forth many challenges. EMC take pride in knowing our business end to end, and that means where our handsets come from and where they go.
Knowing and working in line with both WEEE recycling standards and BASEL convention ethical standards, we make sure that we track and trace our handsets around the world. We go there, we see it, we know the trail.
Our mission is to lead the way with innovative recycling solutions that work for both your business and the environment.
