Charging your phone

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Mobile phones have become one of the must-have item/accessories in modern society. Without a mobile phone, an individual can't communicate his/her friends, love-ones and peers. Also, many can capture a moment using a mobile phone camera, or allow us to check information from the Internet. But phones have a limited battery charge, and once the battery is drained, we have to charge it at home or some place with a electric outlet (if you bring your own charger).

Your mobile phone charger is more powerful than it looks. Along with a rechargeable battery, a phone cannot re-charge without a phone charger and an electricity. Electricity from home, office or even in your car.

..or you could charge it using the sun...., but in order to be environmentally friendly you must ensure that the energy used in producing and shipping a solar powered charger is less than the energy saved by using a solar powered charger. At present, most solar chargers incorporate a battery which is actually used to charge the phone, and when there isn't enough sun they can still be used, and the charger can be charged itself from mains supply. So, you'd also have to be very careful that if you invested in one of these (they are generally several times more expensive than the cost of all the electricity you will use to charge your phone over its lifetime) to be more environmentally friendly that you also use it the right way and ensure it can charge multiple devices that you have. Most small scale electricity generation like this does not a positive environmental effect compared to how the same amount of money might be alternatively invested in energy saving/emissions reduction.

Recycle your mobile Do you know that 85% of used/broken phones can be recycle? [source required] Most electronic devices contain toxic chemicals that should not be disposed of in the trash, including chargers. In the EU it is generally illegal to do so. There are many recycling schemes, some of which pay you money back, which makes it easy to recycle electronic waste.

Here's a some tips that are user-friendly how to charge your phone, more efficiently.

1. Turn-off phone when charging. If the phone is turned off, it will re-charge the battery more faster. Tests prove [source required] that charging phone while turned off can speed up charging time for 15-30 minutes.

2. If you use a universal charger, make sure that it outputs the correct volts/amps recommended by the phone manufacturer. If a charger is not provided with your electrical devices, then having a universal charger means you don't need to have several of them. But if they do not have the correct output, you could damage the device, shortening its life and making it electrical waste sooner than needs be.

3. Do not leave the charger plugged into the electricity outlet. The so-called phantom power draw of a mobile phone charger is small, but if millions of people do it then the sum total adds up to something much larger!

4. Lastly, to save more battery life, switch off the phone while you're asleep or when you don't need the phone.