{"id":7036,"date":"2021-05-28T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2021-05-26T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:12:11","slug":"spring-cleaning-includes-old-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/spring-cleaning-includes-old-mobile-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should You Do With Your Old Mobile Phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"New research shows that Australians seem to have a big problem parting ways with old, and even broken mobile phones.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mobile Muster<\/a> estimates that there are around 25 million unused mobile phones lying around Australian homes and businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Well apparently because we either don\u2019t get around to it or are scared of throwing out something we need.\u00a0 I spoke to Spyro Kalos from Mobile Muster about getting all these old mobile phones cleaned out.\u00a0 Listen below.<\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.whooshkaa.com\/show\/5521\/episode\/431733.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research shows that Australians seem to have a big problem parting ways with old, and even broken mobile phones.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mobile Muster estimates that there are around 25 million unused mobile phones lying around Australian homes and businesses. Why?\u00a0 Well apparently because we either don\u2019t get around to it or are scared of throwing out something we need.\u00a0 I[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[1261,953,929,1290],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-2","tag-e-waste","tag-mobile-phones","tag-recycling","tag-smartphones"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Should You Do With Your Old Mobile Phone? - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/spring-cleaning-includes-old-mobile-phones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Should You Do With Your Old Mobile Phone? - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New research shows that Australians seem to have a big problem parting ways with old, and even broken mobile phones.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mobile Muster estimates that there are around 25 million unused mobile phones lying around Australian homes and businesses. 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