For Earth Day this year, recycle your old iPhone
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If your old iPhone isn`t worth selling, don`t just throw it away. Recycle it! Millions of people upgrade their iPhone once per year or every other year. If you`re lucky, your old iPhone is still worth a cool mint and you can sell it to help recoup the cost of your new one. Sometimes, though, your old iPhone isn`t worth the materials its made out of. If you`re holding onto a many years-old iPhone that would be more trouble than it`s worth to sell it, you should consider recycling instead. It`s better for the environment and very easy to do. Before you let it go If you have an iPhone that you want to discard, you probably know that you should erase it first. It`s not quite as easy as simply tapping an erase button, but it`s not hard, as long as you follow the right steps. Here`s how: If you have an Apple Watch paired to your iPhone, you`ll need to unpair it. Use the Watch app on your iPhone to do the unpairing; doing so ensures that your Watch`s data will be backed up to your iPh...