Top Cell Phones

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission announced in 2009 the overall situation of China’s information industry development. Data show that in 2009 China produced 619 million mobile phones, up 10.7%, accounting for 49.9% of the global mobile phone production. This is the first time the annual output of China’s 600 million mobile phone.
So many mobile phones and our daily lives accompanied by interest rates, which forced us to examine its impact on our lives. In fact, as a communication tool, it brought us many conveniences, but also to give our lives a lot of change, of course, including those hard to avoid frustration.

Mobile phone radiation pollution affect human health

Phones in use in the process will produce electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic radiation is light of this spread, but also the interaction between the transmission channel through the formation of pollution, human interference with normal activities. In this regard, a Swedish research institutions for more than 10,000 people made use of the phone survey. The results show that the more frequent use of mobile phones, their physical discomfort more apparent. Scientists have studied the evidence: the body must be sustained by the strength of the electromagnetic radiation will produce thermal effects and nonthermal effects, may cause skin, fever, eye cataracts, testicular degeneration, physical fatigue, headache, decreased immune function and other symptoms.
Phone microwave easily into the human brain. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden recently found that it emits microwave has the potential to open the door to toxins entering the brain. Lund University research team is to carry out tests on rats came to this conclusion. They accept the test mice placed in a microwave equivalent of the amount issued cell phone in the living environment for some time and found that the mouse albumin in the blood can break the protective layer into the rat brain mouse brain. Albumin is a normal blood component, but is harmful to the brain. If the number of albumin up to a certain extent, the brain cells will be killed, and its consequences may lead to autoimmune diseases, but also may lead to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses.
Opportunity to increase brain cancer. British “Daily Express” said Dr. Carlo Washington, spent six years studying the use of mobile phones on the health effects of mobile phone users died of brain cancer found a higher chance of suffering from brain tumors outside chance of the former twice.
Prone to teratogenic phone on her hips. Scientists recently discovered that cell phone radiation released slightly, enough to make the developing chicken embryo deformities. This discovery raised fears of human embryos may also be affected, because the human embryos and chicken embryos were similar.
Bacterial contamination than the toilet phone pad. Xiangfan First People’s Hospital Staff in the bacterial contamination of the cell phone situation a survey collected as part of the key and answer the phone at. The results showed 108 detected 10 kinds of mobile phone 240 bacteria, 39 strains of pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus aureus easily lead to pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Phone per square centimeter “presence” of the bacteria actually about 120,000, more than one door handles, shoe, or even a bathroom toilet seat on the number of bacteria.

Mobile phone battery into a source of pollution

The current mobile phone batteries are nickel-cadmium batteries, nickel metal hydride batteries and lithium ion battery 3 species. Which contain heavy metals as cadmium, nickel-cadmium batteries, the most damaging, is gradually being phased out many mobile phone battery manufacturers. However, low-cost nickel-cadmium batteries, which still has a larger market share. Harmful heavy metal cadmium on the human body, chronic cadmium poisoning, the clinical manifestations of emphysema, bone changes, anemia, and may make people paralyzed. In our recently published “Electronic Information Products Pollution Control Regulations”, the clearly defined toxic, harmful substances in there, “Cd.” Scientific tests showed that an old cell phone batteries in the cadmium could seriously contaminate 60,000 liters of water, which water can fill three Olympic sized swimming pool. In fact, the nickel-metal hydride batteries and lithium-ion batteries also contain a variety of heavy metals and plastics, these phones have a battery of environmental pollution.

A waste cell phone containing 20 kinds of harmful substances

How much time people spent an average of “manufacturing” a used cell phone? The answer is 600 days, which is a Hong Kong environmental group statistical data obtained. Statistics show China’s annual replacement of old mobile phones up to down as much as 100 million. A large number of old mobile phones discarded every year not only means that there are numerous heavy invasion of the natural environment, while a large number of halogen-containing adhesive will gradually spread to people around the environment, on human immune system, endocrine system resulting in poisoning or even cause cancer. Used as a traditional mobile phone contains substances harmful to the environment at least 20 species, people tend to focus on lead, mercury, cadmium and other pollution factors above, but to neglect its presence also halogen-containing adhesive. In fact, this hidden in the printed circuit boards, plastic modules such as the location of the material in the event of fire or heat, it will release dioxins and other harmful substances that may pose a threat to the environment and the next generation.

Phone how to change waste

The world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia announced a targeted, including China’s 13 national consumer phone recycling awareness survey report. The report shows that most consumers do not regard the throwing of used mobile phones at home, only 3% of people will choose to be recycled, while in China, the figure was 1%. Although the average respondent has several mobile phones, but only a very small part of the person’s phone will not be recycled. The survey shows that only 3% had recovered the cell phone, while 4% used mobile phones will be directly thrown into the landfill; about 44% of respondents used mobile phones will idle at home; others do not make their phone a friend or family member; 16% of people will sell.
In global terms, 74 percent of consumers admitted that they never thought to recycle cell phones, even though 72% of people believe that recycling will make the environment a big difference. For example, in Indonesia, 88% of people not considered recycling in India, this figure accounted for 84%, in Brazil, Sweden, Germany and Finland, the figure is 78%. In China, there are 70% of people had not considered recycling old mobile phones.
From a global point of view, half of the respondents did not know phones could be recycled. In India, the minimum number of about recycling, about 17%; in the UK, the highest number, about 80%; Finland and Sweden to 66%. In China, 49% of people do not know the phone can be recycled in the 13 countries surveyed in the sixth.

Used mobile phones go?

In China, only a handful of old mobile phones are recycled through the normal channels of effective, most used cell phone is illegal street vendors embrace the go, and then processed and then a face-lift back to the market, so the refurbished machine, cloning machine came into being, making the phone market was mixed, the consumer is hard to determine authenticity.
Overseas, Japan’s professional conduct phone recycling “ecosystem” of mobile phone recycling companies will first demolished and classification of pieces by hand, and then immersed in chemicals to remove unwanted metal impurities, and then the remaining metal purification. Extraction of gold are collected together, melted and cast into gold bars weighing about 3 kg. This bullion price of approximately $ 90,000. “Ecosystem” recovery month, the company produced 200-300 kg of gold bars, 99.99% purity, worth about 5.9 to 8.8 million U.S. dollars, the equivalent of a small-scale gold production. “Ecosystem” recovery company also recycles waste memory chips, cables, or even contain silver and palladium black ink, to extract valuable metals.
British mobile phone recycling the same into a new industry. Britain is the world’s first mobile phone business to carry out the recycling of waste the country, as early as 2002 years ago launched a phone recycling program. Implementation of the first year of the recovery of more than 1 million mobile phone deal mobile phones, batteries and mobile phone accessories such as 103 tons. UK recycling of used mobile phones there are three ways: First, set up collection points. Mobile phone recycling company with the British Vodafone Group, a subsidiary of British Telecom and other top five mobile phone network operators and mobile network operators of Europe signed a major agreement in the business of these companies set up for customers at more than 10,000 used cell phone collection points for mobile phone customers to put out. Second, the UK mobile phone company’s business point of sale free of charge to customers with postage paid envelope, customers can be out of cell phone into an envelope, postage-free to mobile phone recycling company’s recycling center. Third, the mobile phone recycling company since 2006, started a community phone recycling program, there are more than 600 charities and community groups involved in helping the collection of used mobile phones.
U.S. cell phone recycling is a three-pronged non-government businesses. United States Government to take the lead, business and civil society participation in the dominant practice of combining. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. major mobile phone manufacturers, retailers and service providers have joined together to launch called “recycling mobile phones, as easy as a phone call” environmental campaign, designed to raise consumer awareness of recycling old mobile phones.

Is a treasure of old mobile phones

In fact, scrap mobile phones as “valuable mineral resources”, to obtain from a variety of precious metals. The precious metal content in the phone quite rich. From which recovery of gold, silver, copper, palladium and other precious metals, the average per 100 grams of the phone body, containing 14 g copper, 0.19 Silver, 0.03 grams gold and 0.01 grams of palladium. In addition, also recovered from the cell phone lithium batteries lithium.
China’s mobile phone is currently used by an average of 3 per year limit, each year there is a billion mobile phones will be out of the movement. If the weight of 0.1 kg per single department calculated the annual total of 10,000 tons. Gold per ton of waste mobile phones in about 280 grams, 2000 grams of silver, palladium containing 100 grams, including copper and small amounts of platinum, iridium, rhodium, etc. temporarily dollars. Year out of calculation, these gold-bearing 2.8 tons of used mobile phones, 20 tons of silver, platinum group metals in the palladium 100 kg. This is a treasure trove of precious metals and platinum group metals. Only the total value of these three metals will reach 700 million yuan. Addition of a new generation of mobile phone use of aluminum-magnesium alloy case, such a huge amount of wealth, is now abandoned in dismay, recovery fatigue. Therefore, how to recover this wealth is a priority. More than 10,000 tons of electronic waste in one year, respectively, to extract all kinds of valuable metals, the average cell phone every day to deal with more than 30 tons of waste, its difficult to imagine. Difficult in the production process adopted. Some people would like to direct current with high temperature (1200 degrees) and pyrometallurgical these “e-waste”, from which a variety of metal alloys, smelting, refining and then were taken to wet the metal element. If you take a direct smelting, must use a large number of high-quality coke. Which generated a lot of pollution (such as low boiling point of magnesium sublimation and combustion and oxidation of mercury, arsenic and other toxic elements in the gas) is also a problem how to eliminate.

Frequent opportunities to contribute to global warming hands

High-income or mobile fashion-sensitive customers, about half a year for a cell phone, from the color screen, polyphonic, wireless Internet access, digital camera to MP3, MP4, navigation and other smart phones, each full of gimmicks to bring new features are a new The “replacement era.” A survey shows that six months to a year for mobile phone users compared to 12.8%, one to two years for mobile phone users compared to 24.4%. Students at Peking University, according to a survey, a sophomore at the university used the 2-5 in the phone a few, there is a class of students, senior manager with 10 years of 15 mobile phones.
Not only in China’s mobile phone replacement fast, according to statistics, the Japanese average every two years and eight months to replace a cell phone; in the UK, a mobile user with any mobile phone company signed a launch services agreement, will receive a free phone, and the agreement usually provides the user every 18 months can be a free replacement phone.
Some manufacturers encourage consumers to replace every six months a cell phone, and former Deputy Assistant United Nations Secretary-General Wei Keman said they received a profit, we have become wise consumers, frequent replacement of mobile phones cost of energy and materials is much higher than a long-term use of mobile phones. In the context of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions that a large number of consumer behavior with the immoral means. Global warming with the vision to re-examine the life we ​​take for granted, will be many new understanding.