Make money from your old mobile phone
Don't throw away your old mobile phone handset. You can make a handy bit of extra cash out of it.

Every year in Britain, we throw away 5.25 million mobile phones, reckons Moneysupermarket.com.
This is utter madness. I realise that recycling can seem a bit of a chore at times but unlike your cans and newspapers, you can make a handy bit of extra cash from your old handset.
For example, if I sold my Nokia 5800 to one of the mobile phone recycling firms, I could earn £100. Even a very old handset such as a Nokia 6230 could still sell for £11 not bad considering that you are getting paid to get rid of something you don't want anyway, in an environmentally responsible manner.
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Ruth Jackson-Kirby is a freelance personal finance journalist with 17 years’ experience, writing about everything from savings accounts and credit cards to pensions, property and pet insurance.
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