First and foremost, the obvious answer here is the phone itself, its material. A cell phone is made of various resources, such as precious metals (silver, gold) and toxic substances (chromium, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium). Waste management being mostly quite inefficient in North America, a part of what goes into the bin when we get rid of our phones are precious natural resources that could easily be (truly) recycled and reused for many other purposes like creating energy to power households. In fact, according to Planet Green Recycle, an American fundraiser program, only “42 cell phones…