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Article: Mobile phones pose hidden danger: expert
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 25, 2008
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Mobile phones pose hidden danger: expert
JAKARTA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- With more people using mobile phones
and frequently upgrading models, some 40 to 50 million old phones
are dumped across the world every year, an expert has told an
international conference in Bali, Indonesia.
"The return rate of mobile phones to be recycled is below 10
percent in the world," Marco Buleti, chairman of the Mobile Phone
Partnership Initiative (MPPI), was quoted Wednesday by major
newspaper The Jakarta Post as saying.
"Therefore, the issue of waste from dumped mobiles phones is
significant due to sheer quantity globally," he said during the
meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention in ...