If you throw your cell phone away or leave it in a drawer at home, and buy a second cell phone, then that new phone will result in another 91 kg of CO 2. Recycling or reusing the first cell phone will ...

From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of today, the evolution of cell phones ... 8000X. The phone was nearly a foot long and weighed roughly 2.5 lbs (over a kilogram).