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Are you hanging onto an old mobile phone that you no longer use? If so, now is the perfect time to recycle it! Not only will recycling your old phone help to protect the environment, but you can also secure fantastic cash values for your old tech! According to a recent study, the UK generates over 1.2 million tons of electronic waste each year, with old mobile phones making up a significant portion of that waste. How can you help make a difference?

The name CAT is largely known for quality machinery, from large trucks and diggers down to spare parts. However, CAT also produce an exceptional range of rugged mobile phones designed for the heavy user. So we are super happy to introduce an ethical way you can recycle your old CAT devices when its time to upgrade

Did you know that you can save money and at the same time save the environment by buying a used or refurbished phone? This article provides you the idea on how your smartphone can affect Mother Earth and how purchasing refurbished phones can help reduce the damage done to the environment. Having functional devices such as smartphones is extremely important today as people live in the new normal where more and more are opting to work from home and students are being exposed to e-learning.

We are super happy to have streamlined and re-launched our corprate recycling program, Preloved Tech for Business. Our corporate recycling program provides a secure and professional platform allowing corporate companies, charities and public sector businesses to ethically recycle their mobile devices and maximise asset value return. Our service is simple and straightforward to allow for stress free decommissioning and exiting of your company devices, with all necessary certification for GDPR compliant data destruction provided, and all recycling and disposal conforming to the WEEE directive.

After weeks of deliberation, the finalists of the 2022 Mobile Industry Awards, in partnership with Sky Zero, have been announced and we are super happy to have made it into the final for Start-up of the Year for the second consecutive year! Celebrating their 20th year in 2022, the MIAs represent the gold standard of excellence in the industry. From the boardroom to the grassroots, the entrants represent the best and brightest the UK mobile industry has to offer.

Electronic waste stream is undeniably amongst the most rapidly increasing waste streams. This is because the world is continually being modernised and all manner of electronics are being improved to accommodate the growing need for modernisation. Electronic waste including devices like smartphones, computers, white goods and TV's make up a huge chunk of waste in landfills today. Unless other means of managing this waste is adopted, we may be unable to reverse the damages we incur on earth by careless dumping electronic waste.

We are super proud to annouce that we have won the BizBubble award for Best Digitial Biz 2022 after coming out on top of a hard fought final. We beat off stiff competition in the category to land 1st, hand chosen by BBCs The Bidding Room entrepreneur Natasha Francis.

Every now and then some good news lands in our inbox that just makes us all feel incredibally proud, and today was one of those days! We are thrilled to annouce we have been shortlised as a BizBubble finalised for Best Digital Biz 2022 along with 6 other fantastic businesses, with results set to be annouced on 25th February 2022.

As a recycling company we are always looking for ways we can take steps forward in tacking the growing e-waste crisis and actioning climate change. In December 2021 we partnered with Ecologi, a social enterprise who provide a platform to help everyday people and businesses tackle climate change through various climate positive actions. As an ecologi partner, we can help fund impactful climate solutions through responsible tree planting.

We were super happy to be chosen by Entrepreneur, and Dragons Den legend, Theo Paphitis as an #SBS winner back in October 2021. It definately was a moment of realisation that we are doing good things in others eyes. One of the exciting things of being an #SBS winner is we get to attend the annual #SBS event, which is being held in Birmingham this February.

We are really happy to have been entered into the BizBubble People's Choice Award 2022 and are calling on our customers to vote for us. The BizBubble awards are a vehicle to promote business and business owners for excelling in their field and winners of multiple categories will be judged by Natasha Francies from the BBC's Bidding Room show.

As a technology recycler we are committed to climate change and tackling the growing e-waste issue. Did you know, on average only 20% of electronic equipment is correctly recycled each year, with many items ending up in landfill sites across UK and the world. By recycling your device with Preloved Tech you can be sure that every step is taken to refurbish and reuse your device to avoid it ending up at landfill. Not only that, by recycling your device through our website are doing your bit to help action climate change!

Every now and then something happens that just makes you feel good about everything you are doing, and last Monday was no exception. Our consumer recycling business, Preloved Tech, received a huge business boost from Retail Entrepreneur Theo Paphitis.

We are extremely happy to announce an exciting partnership with RedkeyUSB Ltd that will see our data sanitisation service take a huge step forward. We live in a technical world that is heavily reliant on computers, so protecting our personal and company data at the point of recycling aged equipment is vitally important.

There are many ways to start a week properly, a Monday morning coffee, a good meeting or maybe even a decent sale landing? Well, how about being told you've been shortlisted into the finals of the Mobile Industry Awards 2021 in the Start-up of the Year category?