A new mobile phone recycling scheme has been launched in Brechin, Scotland to raise funds for a memorial monument.
The monument is to commemorate the life and work of a local man Sir Robert Watson-Watt, who invented radar which helped Britain defeat the Germans in the Second World War.
The Watson-Watt society have teemed up with ‘Reclaim-it’ who collect mobile phones, empty laser toner cartridges and ink jet cartridges for recycling and work with a lot of charities and non-profit organisations in the UK.
Local residents in Brechin are being encouraged to put their old phones into pre-paid envelopes and post them to Reclaim-it. The society will then receive money for the donated phones which will help towards their £80,000 target.
One of the members of the Watson-Watt Society, Brian Mitchell, said: “Anyone can put the envelopes away. All you need to do it put your old phone, or empty ink cartridges in the envelope and pop it in the post-box. The envelopes are prepaid so you do not have to spend any money on postage. We get anything from 10p per ink cartridge to over a pound so it will all mount up.”
Brian says about the idea for the monument: “I found it a bit strange that a man who did so much in the defence of the United Kingdom in World War Two did not have a memorial. There were three basic things that helped; the Royal Navy helped to stop invasions, the Royal Air Force helped to stop invasions; and Radar as developed by Watson-Watt….”