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What are the social reasons for recycling copper from mobile phones?

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The same reasons for recycling any metals... There is a finite amount of metal ore on the planet. once it's used up - it's gone for good ! Recycling not only saves Earth's resources, but costs less to produce in terms of energy used (fossil fuels - another non-renewable resource !)

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