EU Raw Minerals information System

 

Raw Minerals information System EU

Closing the Loop FOR MOBILE PHONES

http://www.closingtheloop.eu/

 

Get started on circularity.

Combine unique marketing with societal benefits.

Your company uses mobile phones. We make this usage circular by offsetting your phones.
One phone you use, leads to one discarded phone being responsibly collected and recycled. One for One.

Our services turn your circular ambitions into tangible and audited results and an appealing story. Offsetting your phones makes your gadgets waste-free and material-neutral.



It works like this:

• You buy a phone and want this purchase to be more sustainable;
• CTL charges you a fee of a few euros per phone;
• CTL uses that fee to pay its African partners for the collection of an end-of-life phone;
• This collection is done by local communities in the emerging world, in a safe way that is fully in line with international laws;
• If proper recycling is not possible locally, CTL ships the waste to certified facilities;
• The waste is then turned into reusable materials (urban mining), in a safe and clean way;
• You get great content, circular results and audited reporting on our approach.

Closing the Loop - Circular Economy for mobile phones (Ghana)

http://www.reinhardtsmit.com/projects/closing-loop-circular-economy-mobile-phones

Closing the Loop is a Netherlands-based organisation that creates a circular economy for mobile phones. In practise, they give good quality second hand mobile telephones a second life in Africa, but more importantly, they create a reverse-distribution system in less developed nations to collect mobile phones for recycling.

http://www.closingtheloop.eu/