The afterlife of cellphones

After you’ve thrown out your old, broken or out of style cellphone, they have do have some value in their afterlife, according to The New York Times. “Cellphones are the most valuable form of e-waste. Each one contains about a US$1 worth of precious metals, mostly gold.”  Last year, according to ABI Research, 1.2 billion phones were sold worldwide. Sixty percent of them probably replaced existing ones. In the United States, phones are cast aside after, on average, 12 months. Here in Jamaica, we change our phones on average every nine months.