Your old and unwanted mobile phone doesn’t have to lie forgotten in a drawer – it can help people in need. 🙌 The cooperation between the ASEKOL compliance scheme and the REMOBIL non-profit project is putting a strong social spotlight on recycling.

REMOBIL and ASEKOL are drawing attention to the hidden environmental impact of unwanted mobile phones. The point is that a mobile phone, weighing around 100 grams, is a small device that fits easily in our pocket. However, calculations show that the entire life cycle of a mobile phone results in 1,000 times more material and waste, i.e. around 100 kg.

The activities of ASEKOL and the REMOBIL project aimed at raising awareness and collecting unwanted mobile phones are not only environmental; they also have a social dimension. The project contributes ten crowns from every mobile phone handed in towards charitable causes, and since 2017 has already raised almost 700,000 crowns to help children in the Jedlička Institute and Schools, to help fund palliative care provided by the Ondrášek Mobile Hospice, to support sports for children from disadvantaged families through the Czech Olympic Foundation, and to help people with impaired fine motor skills of the upper limbs acquire the ability to operate a computer using their voice under the guidance of the organisation Silou hlasu (The Power of the Voice). The money to help lowland gorillas in their African home comes through the Helping Them Survive fundraiser account in cooperation with Prague Zoo and other participating zoos.