CMR & Oxfam Feature on ITN Lunchtime News

National ITN news featured Corporate Mobile Recycling with their mobile recycling partners, Oxfam. The 1 minute 40 second live ‘walkabout’ and interviews with Olly Tagg (CMR) and Liz Whiteley (Oxfam) took place at CMR’s Head Office in Holborn, London.

 

The story focused on how the UK as a whole needs to increase it’s recycling effort. CMR was used as an example of good practice, outlining how they recycle 80,000 mobile phones a month saving 1,000,000 handsets per annum from landfill.

 

Click here to view the full news story.

 

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CMR are delighted to announce that recycling mobiles has raised £650,000 for Oxfam over the past 5 years!

 

CMR and Oxfam have been working in partnership for over 5 years collecting old and unwanted mobile phones from 750 Oxfam Shops, Corporate and individual donors and most recently through Oxfam’s partnership with The Co-operative Group. In the past 12 months our efforts have raised over £200,000 for Oxfam’s work as well as diverting around 17 ½ tonnes of mobile-related electrical waste from landfill!

 

Thank you for your support!

 

 

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