Are mobile phones costing the earth?

Link: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Do mobile phones cost the Earth?

Dylan Gwynn Jones, of University of Wales, Aberystwyth, oversaw some preliminary research into the environmental impacts from mobile phones.

“The findings were that the ecological footprint of creating a mobile phone may be small, but the cumulative effect is quite significant on a global scale,” he told BBC News.

As with all electronic equipment, mobile phones contain a range of substances that are harmful if the devices are not disposed of properly.

Plant a tree every time you buy a mobile phone. Good policy, I reckon.

That, and using Envirophone to recycle your old handsets.