Vodafone Germany to recycle one million old mobile phones from Africa

Vodafone will also support Closing the Loop to build recycling infrastructure in developing countries, which will eliminate the need to ship ewaste and create many more jobs in those countries, de Kluijver said. — AFP

BERLIN: Vodafone Germany plans to recycle more than one million old mobile phones from Africa, the telecoms firm said on June 21.

The Dutch firm Closing the Loop will help in the endeavour to gather old phones primarily from Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon and transport them to Europe for recycling there.