Did you know that Nokia has a free recycling scheme for all their hardware? Here's the UK page, but there's probably one for each country. Never mind travelling to a Nokia Care Point either, you just pop the hardware in a jiffy bag and send it to the free address. This was spotted by the Nokia Conversations team, talking about the similar USA page. Of course, there's always eBay - whereby the kit will actually get used again and you make a few dollars... but for the rest, there's now Freepost!
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No free posting in the netherlands. You got to drop it off at a care point and waste time. Why am I paying a environmental tax for recycling on a phone if there is no free recycling? The attic is fine for know though. Plenty of room for old phones...
Besides the local carepoints are @#%$#^%'s.
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^ Unregistered has so much ANGER!
Where is your sympathy for helping the environment? You're not doing this for yourself y'know?
Yeah, but lets face it Nokia should have a freepost address in every country. And if they don't they should by the end of the year (that's a nice easy goal to meet).
@unregistered 2:
>Where is your sympathy for helping the environment? You're not doing this for yourself y'know?
Wrong, I consider helping the environment a matter of self-enlightened interest.
The service points are far and few. Vodafone in the Netherlands actually allows you to send an old phone in by post, no postage required. It will then be reused in the 3rd world or recycled.
How come than that Nokia expects me to drive 30 minutes to a service point to drop something off? Where is the environmental consideration in that? Delivery trucks run both ways you know! Nokia don't even supply a post adres to send it. With current gasoline prices it might even be cheaper to pay for the postage myself!
Concering my $%#@%$^ opinion about our local Nokia service point read this. Do you really think I'd like too visit those people again? And be ignored for another 30+ minutes during working hours? Phoning Nokia Service they even could not tell me where my phone was. I ended up with a brand new IMEI number in the end and a scratch free casing... After their contradictionairy statements I have developped a healty distrust for our local Nokia 'Care' point.
Rafe wrote:Yeah, but lets face it Nokia should have a freepost address in every country. And if they don't they should by the end of the year (that's a nice easy goal to meet).
Any solution should be a time efficient simple solution, they are competing with my trashcan out back 😉