I've seen this discussion come up a few times, and it's always interesting to see what everyone's perspective is on it. While I was away at Disney during the Safari they actually mention the mining process involved for getting some of the necessary elements for phone batteries and for other electronics and encouraged people to always recycling their phone batteries instead of throwing them out.

It never dawned on me to throw away old phones/batteries. I have all my old phones in a drawer just in case anything happens to my present one and I need backups. Mind you, I only have 4 older phones.

Really cool article, though! Thanks for sharing!


Cheers,
Ember