I've noticed that a lot of my friend's phones are breaking, and since it coincides with the release of a new piece of Apple tech, I want to remind everyone that it's extremely important that we recycle all outdated or broken electronics, from phones, faxes, desktops and printers to alarm clocks, hard drives, VCRs and TVS.
All these things contain valuable rare earth materials that are utterly essential for creating the technology that we're dependant on today. With the boom in compact devices (10 million iPhone6 in a weekend) we're going through these rare metals at an enormous rate, and they're called rare-earth metals for a reason. You think smartphones cost $700 because of price gouging or capitalism? It's because they're full of gold, lithium, coltan, platinum, and none of these things comes cheap. Anywhere from 100 to 130 million cellphones are tossed into the trash each year in America alone, and only 1% of these are being recycled. That's a criminal waste when you can get 35kg of gold from 1 million phones!

If you want a reason why you should recycle, read about the Coltan mines in the Congo where people are literally dying in the thousands so that we can play Angry Birds. Even if you don't care about the human factor, you should definitely care that without recycling all these precious metals, we'll run out someday. What happens if you reach your seventies and you can't afford a perfect Virtual Reality that lets you live as your fursona, because the price of tantalum is on a par with unobtanium? Like most of you I'd shoot myself before I'd go back to before the information age, so I'm doing my best to say RECYCLE YOUR E-WASTE, PRETTY PLEASE! :) How can you resist that cute kitty anyway, he's so adorable, he doesn't even know which way up a phone goes!

In Australia we have MobileMuster, a free program where you mail away your phone to be recycled. That pre-paid postage bag I'm nomming there comes inside the box of every Samsung phone or tablet, but you can find drop-off points all around Australia at this website
For my other friends around the world there's plenty of options, Best Buy, Staples and Wallmart have free drop boxes I've heard, and you can find many more places through google.

Please recycle your electronic waste, you'll have my thanks and hugs if you do! :)

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