Save the Gorillas and recycle your old mobile phone.

More than 800 million people around the world currently use mobile phones and that figure is growing daily.

In Australia alone, it is estimated that there were 9 million new mobile phones sold in the last 12 months.

Australians typically upgrade their phones every 18-24 months. This exerts enormous pressure on the mining of resources such as coltan needed to manufacture new phones.

Each time your mobile phone rings, a tiny piece of metallic ore from Africa is making this call possible: coltan. The mining of this commodity within the Congo River Basin is contributing to forest loss and unrest in the region, and is accelerating the loss of mountain gorillas at an alarmingly fast rate due to habitat loss.

By recycling your phone you can divert your phone from landfill and lessen the demand for coltan mining by providing the coltan coated capacitor in our old mobile phone a second life.

The Melbourne Zoo has adopted the ‘They’re Calling on You’ mobile phone recycling program. Funds raised from recycling mobile phones will be donated by Zoos Victoria to primate conservation. Bendigo Bank Telco will be supporting the campaign.

So please ‘recycle’ your old mobile phone that is sitting in a drawer collecting dust.

Contact us on 1300 304 541 or email support@bbtelco.com.au and we will send you out a prepaid satchel.

‘They’re calling on you’