What do you do with your old phone?

I guess the most frequent response will be: "I abandoned it into a drawer". I will say:"Me too!"

My first mobile phone was a Nokia 5110, monochrome GSM phone just to make calls and messaging; then came Nokia 3330. The personal information stored in that phones where a few so backup and removal data was not a problem.
Then I bought a Series40 phone, Nokia 6610i; I've started using Contacts and Agenda extensively and phone memory let me to store a lots of text messages...but a problem rose up when I've switched to my actual phone Nokia 6630: data transfer!
Even if I'm a Nokia fan, I complained PCSuite so long! The backup format of N6610 was not full compatible with the new phone so the most part of data are still there.

Finally, even if you are part of the little club of persons that did not face problems with data sync, is it worth to keep with you the old phone?

I googled to find opportunities to recycle mobile devices and I've highlighted:

• an official initiative sponsored by CTIA, but I've noticed that of all member of CTIA just a little part subscribed the recycling iniziative;
  
• and some charity organizations which collect phones thanks to donations to fight poverty.
  

I would like to have a more complete vision, so please comment on this post to describe the recycling opportunities about mobile devices in your country!
I guess that only a little percentage of mobile devices are recycled and in many countries in Europe (and probably in the world) recycling service is still not available.

The number of devices is soaring month by month so it will become necessary to organize recycling to avoid additional environment pollution and waste of materials.

If nothing has happened before is because recycling costs...Should we wait some kind of law that enforces device recycling as did EU (as BBC says) with batteries to make it happens?

Comments are open.....