Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia - Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

Out-of-use mobile phones generate new waste mainly consisting of three parts:

• Terminals: shells, displays, printed circuit plates, electrical components. 80% reusable.
• Batteries: Nickel-Cadmium, Nickel-Metal Hydride Ion-Lithium. reusable 36% to 96%
• Accessories: Charger/Transformer, base, keypad, antenna, etc. 96% reusable.

What do I achieve by recycling mobile phones?

• Raw materials for industry, thus saving on natural resources.
• Reduction in pollution. In particular, taking into account the number of batteries their high capacity for polluting.
• Energy saving.

How are mobile phones recycled?

They are sent to a company specialising in decontaminating, i.e., the liquid crystal displays the batteries are removed handed over to a hazardous waste management company. The metal parts precious metals can be recovered through a physical crushing process. Plastics are also separated for later reuse.

On 1 September 2008, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between Garbiker the electrical electronic device waste (Spanish initials, RAEE), Integrated Management System (Spanish initials, SIG) organizations, with the aim of regulating the conditions for collecting "mobile telephones" waste the garbigunes (pick-up points) managed by Garbiker, in accordance with the terms of RD 208/2005 of 25 February.

The managers are:
* Fundación ECOTIC
* Fundación ECOFIMÁTICA
* Fundación TRAGAMOVIL
* Fundación ECOASIMELEC

* ECOTIC                * ECOFIMÁTICA                 * TRAGAMOVIL                 * ECOASIMELEC