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Bring Bring mobile phone scheme

These pages can be used to get your pupils thinking about how mobile phones are used and the costs and benefits associated with them. They also give tips on organising a collection of mobile phones in your school that can be recycled by Oxfam to benefit people and the environment.

Resources for use in the classroom

• Introduction to the bring bring recycling scheme including details on organising a mobile phone collection in your school.

• Downloadable bring bring educational leaflet (122K PDF file) – For use with 12–16 year olds, provides background information about the Bring Bring scheme and about mobile phones. Also includes suggestions for activities, discussion points, and useful resources for exploring issues about the environment, recycling, poverty and how communications technology is changing people's lives all around the world.

• Lesson Plan: Doing a cost-benefit analysis for a mobile phone – help focus your pupils' attention on the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phone usage, both for themselves and for society.

Online on Cool Planet for Children

• Introduction to the bring bring mobile phone recycling scheme.

• Organise a collection of mobiles in your school.

• Mobiles around the world – life before mobiles, how they are used in other countries and by Oxfam in disaster situations. Includes questions on mobile usage globally for pupils to think about.