Marie Curie Cancer Care, the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, the Royal National Institute of the Blind, the Children's Hospice Association Scotland and Northern Ireland Hospice Care have teamed up to run the eco-friendly fundraising appeal, ensuring that every mobile donated generates vital funds for good causes.
The phones are refurbished and resold, with a substantial portion of the proceeds going to charitable organisations. All the donor has to do is to choose which charity he wants to donate to and then send the phone to The Recycling Appeal in a pre-paid envelope which it provides.
"When people receive fancy new mobiles for Christmas, their old phones are often forgotten about," said Jamie Rae, chief executive of Eurosource, the company behind The Recycling Appeal. "These phones join the UK's estimated 75 million redundant mobiles - enough phones to stretch from London to Lapland more than three times!"
The Recycling Appeal is also seeking empty printer cartridges.