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Typically made from cardboard with an insert being made from recycled polystyrene. The boxes typically get a gloss finish. The boxes are square so they can be stacked on shelves easily. The box shapes are efficient.
Typically, people just throw away their phones, causing environmental issues. Phones can be properly disposed at collection centers, where companies will either reuse the phone, or just certain parts.
Mobile phones today allows users to send and receive text messages, emails, photo and videos as well as accessing the internet.
Fiberglass is used to make the circuit board, which is plated in gold.
Circuit boards are connected with circuits and wires, secured with protective glues and coatings.
Batteries are made of two types of electrodes. Electrolytes touch electrodes. When electricity touches, the chemicals react.
Although one might get a new phone, the old phone can still be used for:
Some phone companies allow users to sell back their phones while in good conditions to distribute properly.
Metals
Plastics
Current Events
Metals, (copper), ground, heated, and treated with chemicals and electricity to make cable, circuit boards and batteries.
Crude oil is combined with natural gas and chemicals in a processing plant to make plastic.
Reducing Environmental Impacts
Circuit Boards
Batteries
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Made of:
Plastics, Silicon, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Beryllium, &Tantalum
Made of:
nickel, cobalt, zinc, cadmium, copper, lithium, metallic oxide and other carbon-based materials.
Made of:
Plastic, glass, liquid crystalline and mercury (non-renewable resources)
Extraction of crude oils.
Metals are mined out of the Earth.
Potentially dangerous if they are buried in a landfill.
Mercury is a heavy metal which can be harmful to the environment
Most cellphones now are made out of lithium-ion batteries, which are non-toxic.
The earth's crust is drilled in order to get metals in the earth
Sources
http://slco.org/uploadedFiles/depot/publicWorks/recycling/teacher_resources/lifecycle/Life%20Cycle%20of%20a%20Cell%20Phone.pdf
http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/P100CAA7.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=2000+Thru+2005&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C00thru05%5CTxt%5C00000029%5CP100CAA7.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=p%7Cf&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL
http://enviroliteracy.org/environment-society/life-cycle-analysis/cell-phone-life-cycle/
http://www.appropedia.org/LCA_of_cell_phones