Young Environmentalist

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Young Environmentalist Awards 2009
Glenlola Collegiate School

Mobile Phone Recycling
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YELLOW Club
Who we are and what we're doing...
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Why YELLOW?
Not Green?
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Y E L L O W
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nvironmentalists
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Our Mascot
Slogan
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Our Project
on Waste
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Our Research

• From our research we found that
• 18 million new mobile phones are purchased
  each year
• 77 of the population have a mobile phone
• Over ¾ of the population will replace or
  upgrade their handset during the next six
  months
• Only 5 of these new phones are recycled
• 90 million phones are left hiding in cupboards
  and drawers

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Toxic Mobiles
What's so bad about them?
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They contain
Nickel
Mercury
Arsenic
Lead
These can be released into the ground
and air when burned or disposed of and
cause threat to living things
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We asked people what they did with their old
mobile phones. This is what people said
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Only 5 of mobile phones get recycled. Imagine
what damage the other 95 is doing to our
atmosphere!
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What we did

• We decided to get the whole school involved in
  collecting old mobile phones to be recycled.
• We had found a company called Envirofone who
  would give us money for the old mobiles. We
  decided to donate any money raised to charity.
• To get the whole school behind us we made it one
  of our house competitions!

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School Posters
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The Website
We promoted our project on our school website and
kept it up to date
Check out our website at
www.glenlolacollegiate.net
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Our Notice-board
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Media
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Phone Balance
Number of Phones Collected
Amount Raised
Year
2007
342
1519.35
177
2008
748.98
2009
178
398.47
TOTAL
697
2666.80
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Who benefited?
Here are the charities who benefited from the
money we raised
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Recognition
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What next?
We have contacted other schools in our local area
and hope to get them involved in mobile phone
recycling too!
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YELLOW Club