Business of Cell Phone Recycling

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Green Business
Figure 1: Green Business Sustainability Roadmap
Source: ("Gettingtosustainability.com.au", 2018)
HOSA has more than seven billion cell phones of which most of them has
ended up in the dump. The cell phone market is a business of multi-billion-
dollar of HOSA company. As they have to compete very hard for winning the
customer. It is an essential technology tools of the HOSA company.
In most of the cell phones toxic substances are present that are harmful to
the environment as it gets disposed of at the electronic disposal site. It has
been measured that the level of toxic metals in New Zealand soil is 100 times
greater than the normal toxic level. These chemicals will result in exposure of
various health effect such as kidney damage, asthma, neurological disorders
and birth defect. Thus, the employees need to handle the devices as a
hazardous waste and should not throw in the landfills of the municipal.
The business sustainability can be encouraging through the Governor
signed and the Legislature pass an act that is The HOSA cell phone recycling
act for the recycling of cell phone. In this act all cell phone of the customer will
be accepted by the retailer for recycling. Through this it can determine the
effectiveness of the program. The HOSA company has created a E-Cycling
Central website for the customer to input their state and check through public
and private choices for recycling the phone. The consumer need to enter the
zip code and chose for an option to recycle. The website contains E-cycle
scheme for recycling of cell phone. The website returns an options that
provide a mail for unwanted phones. In New Zealand, the stores that sells the
cell phones need to accept the old phones from the customer.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Cell Phone Life Cycles
Figure 2: Cell phone Life Cycle
Source: (Rohrig, 2018)
The life cycle of a cell phone begins with the extraction of raw material
of which 40 % of the handset consists of plastics, 40 % of them are metals
and 20 % are trace materials and ceramics. Each part then get manufacture
in different places. The final product even may assemble sometimes at long
distances. Packaging is done to protect and provide information about the
product. Later, the recycling materials are being used. The cell phones parts
are then transport to the manufacturing centre. The local production can even
reduce the impact on the environment. The old cell phone can be recycling to
stores that offer free sell of recycling old phones (Rowley, 2018). The HOSA
company gives the customer some cash on dropping the unwanted old cell
phones to their recycling stores. The store then sent the old cell phones to the
recycling centre. For good shape cell phone, the company refurbish them and
donate it to those organizations that are in need, like battered women’s
shelters, military, senior centres. Apart from the good one, the rest of the cell
phones components are disassembled for reuse by the HOSA company.
The heavy metals of cell phone cause a risk of long-term pollution
which affect the health of the human seriously. The few of the toxic metals
that are found in most of the cell phones are Nickel, Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic.
As it is getting difficult to find the cell phones metals in nature. Thus, the
HOSA company is trying to recycle the cell phones metals which can
minimize the impacts on both economic and environmental standpoints.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Water Recycle
Figure 3: Water Recycle for Cell Phone
Source: (Litaor et al., 2015)
The use of Water has become the major issues of the planet. The
plastic components of the cell phones are extracted from oil, the component
of the metal from mines and the glasses are made from silica. In all of these
process, it uses water to extract and refine the parts of the plastic, metals and
glasses. Thus, more water is requiring for packaging and transportation fuels.
Millions of gallons of water are required to make a cell phone. In cell
phone manufacturing, the footprint of water comes from the virtual water
known as the grey water footprint. In grey water footprint, the freshwater
dilutes the wastewater that is generated during manufacturing so that the
quality of the water could be maintain. Each pieces of phones that are created
consumes water. Materials, parts and numerous resources that include tin,
plastics, lithium glass are produce for mining, assembling, creating synthetic
chemicals and packaging. For all this process, it requires a Blue Water
Footprint where the amount of groundwater and surface water is required to
produce cell phones items.
It is important to understand the conservation of water and productively
using of water in making goods and raw materials. Recycling or reuse of old
cell phones may help in saving the amount of water that is use enormously to
make a product. There are several parts and material in a cell phones. Lots of
waters are used to clean those parts. These wastewaters then release into
the waterways where the process of cleaning and diluting are added to the
grey water footprint in order to reuse the water for cleaning the other cell
phones. The same process continues for each cell phone until the completion.
E-waste is the best technological solution to improve the recycling process.
When the total water foot print adds up to produce a cell phone is estimated to
be 3190 gallons.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Waste Recycle
Figure 4: Waste Cell Phones
Source: (Camelino et al., 2015)
The types of waste that could be generated from the cell phone
business are Hazardous waste, Packaging waste, Recyclable waste, and
many more.
Figure 5: Fish bone Analysis of Waste Cell Phone
Source: Mind Tools Ltd. (2018). Direct waste generation of cell phones
Recycling is processing used materials into new, useful products.
Waste Recycling is done to reduce the use of raw materials that would have
been used. And Hence the waste recycling uses less energy and great way of
controlling air, water and land pollutions.
Waste Recycling has become intolerant when coming across waste in
form of everything and everyday scattered and not managed properly leads to
pollution and birth of new deadly diseases. Recycling waste will not only save
our natural resources but it will also help to save the energy for the future.
HOSA company is taking initiatives in order to support recycling of plastic
mainly to avoid dumping.
The fish bone analysis
technique shows the
direct waste generation
of the mobile phones
whose impact are seen
on the environment,
influencing the
consumption of energy
and lot more.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
There are few waste items that are usually recycled that include, Paper waste,
Plastic Waste, Glass Waste, Electronic waste, waste water and more. By
recycling waste such as plastic waste, it can reduce both air & water waste.
Recycling waste water will help to reuse the recycle water and save water
from scarcity region.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Energy
Figure 6: Energy Consumption by Cell Phone
Source: (Sormunen, 2018)
A major Initiative has been taken by the HOAS company is that E-
waste doesn’t end up in landfills and which resulted as 80% of total cell
phones for recycle.
Few process that can ensure the product before recycling it include the
collected information about methods and market stand and the update of
latest technologies which not only changes rapidly but replaces cell phones
also. So cell phones and including batteries can be recycled. Analyze the
competition in the area and determine the small scale business or vendors
who can provide cell phone trade (Cibangu, Hepworth & Champion, 2017). To
execute the plan, initiate a chain to know about the plan, about your
competitors, information given by the local vendors before the process. Make
an estimation to deal with the financial equity for your business to start with.
Advertisement of your product and services, making an impact to aware the
clients and make them understand the importance of it. Use resources
provided by the government.
To improve the energy efficiency in the business sustainability Going
paperless, buying of recycle products, digitalizing the business. Use Internet
for memos, meetings, events and advertisements, implementing online
marketing. Save energy by going outdoor instead of closed doors with lights
and AC.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
Green Transport
Figure 7: Green Transport for Cell Phones
Source: (Andrienko et al., 2017)
Sustainable transport is efficient, effective, green and safe. Green
Transport uses sustainable energy resources that may have a low or negative
effect on the environment. Regenerated and renewable energy are the green
options available for transportation process. Among all the Green Transport
HOSA will integrate the Public Transport for their business to sustain with the
friendly environment.
Figure 8: Pyramid for Types of Green Transport
Source: (Zvirinsky, 2018)
The pyramids show the types of Green Transport that can be used in
taking the old cell phones. The systems of Green transport are the major
emitters in the greenhouse gases, it is responsible for emission of Green
House Gases of 23 % of the world energy of which three of the quarters are
emitted from the road vehicle. At present, 95 % of the energy for transport is

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
coming from petroleum. With the use of vehicle and through manufacturing
energy are consumed. All this process is embedded into the transport
infrastructure.
The cities that have most sustainable transport are Hong Kong, Seoul,
Europe, Paris, Vienna, London, Prague, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Singapore
(Rode et al., 2017). Among this Hong Kong is the top city for sustainability of
transportation systems. It handles 12.6 million passengers in everyday
journey and is also cheap (Venter et al., 2018). The Asian cities need
improvement in the cycling infrastructure. Other are just growing up slowly.

Business of Cell Phone Recycling
References
Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Chen, W., Maciejewski, R., & Zhao, Y. (2017).
Visual analytics of mobility and transportation: State of the art and
further research directions. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, 18(8), 2232-2249.
Camelino, S., Rao, J., Padilla, R. L., & Lucci, R. (2015). Initial studies about
gold leaching from printed circuit boards (PCB’s) of waste cell
phones. Procedia Materials Science, 9, 105-112.
Cibangu, S. K., Hepworth, M., & Champion, D. (2017). Mobile phones for
development: An information case study of mobile phone kiosk vendors
in the Congo. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 294-
315.
Gettingtosustainability.com.au. (2018). Retrieved from
http://www.gettingtosustainability.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/
qld-sustroadmap_2.jpg
Litaor, M. I., Meir-Dinar, N., Castro, B., Azaizeh, H., Rytwo, G., Levi, N., ... &
MarChaim, U. (2015). Treatment of winery wastewater with aerated
cells mobile system. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring &
Management, 4, 17-26.
Rode, P., Floater, G., Thomopoulos, N., Docherty, J., Schwinger, P.,
Mahendra, A., & Fang, W. (2017). Accessibility in cities: transport and
urban form. In Disrupting Mobility (pp. 239-273). Springer, Cham.
Rohrig, B. (2018). Open for Discussion: Recycle that Old Cell Phone! -
American Chemical Society. Retrieved from
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/
chemmatters/past-issues/archive-2014-2015/open-for-discussion--
recycle-that-old-cell-phone-.html
Rowley, J. (2018). Retrieved from
https://www.gsma.com/iot/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/environmobilelif
ecycles.pdf
Sormunen, K. (2018). Influencing Consumer Choice Toward Sustainable
Consumption [Image]. Retrieved from
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/kirsisormunen-sb10-101103192640-
phpapp01/95/nokia-influencing-consumer-choice-toward-sustainable-
consumption-kirsi-sormunen-21-728.jpg?cb=1308571496
Venter, C., Jennings, G., Hidalgo, D., & Valderrama Pineda, A. F. (2018). The
equity impacts of bus rapid transit: A review of the evidence and
implications for sustainable transport. International Journal of
Sustainable Transportation, 12(2), 140-152.
Zvirinsky, P. (2018). Sustainable Transport and Green Fuel Types [Image].
Retrieved from
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/greentransportecologyvisualsppt-
151004114752-lva1-app6892/95/sustainable-transport-and-green-fuel-
types-28-638.jpg?cb=1444082752