Recycling your old mobile phone could actually help save a life.
A campaign in Cardiff, Wales has been started to encourage school children to recycle their old mobile phones to help raise money for St John Wales.
The first aid training provider has appealed to the public to raise funds to help fulfil its aim to have a trained ‘lifesaver’ within minutes of all homes in Wales.
Children at Rhydypenau Primary School, in Llanishen, Cardiff, are asking their friends and family members to donate their old phones to support this new campaign.
The mobile phone recycling campaign started three weeks ago and the money raised will help train young members of the charity in lifesaving first aid skills. Around 70 phones have been collected so far.
To provide St John with a new ambulance 17,680 phones will need to be recycled, 100 phones are needed to fund an Entonox pain relief kit and to provide funds to run an entire fleet of ambulances for a year 5,000 phones will need to be recycled.
The director of fundraising and marketing for St John Wales, said: “We are pleased that Rhydypenau Primary School is backing our campaign, and we hope that pupils and their families will clear out their cupboards and bring in these lifesaving phones. Recycling these mobile phones will help us fund vital first-aid training which could be the difference between a life lost and a life saved.”