The national government wants to ramp up the recycling of old cell phones so they can collect all of the precious metals found inside the phones. It seems that customers are resisting the call to turn in your old phone. Some state the fear privacy concerns, others want to keep the phone to use as a camera or schedule. I figure it's pretty easy, if the gov't pays you for your phone, a kind of return fee, then people will be glad to return them. But trying to play on people's national loyalty has to be one of the worst ways to want to get people to return their phones. On NHK tonight, the were saying that with the demand for these precious metals and how Japan has few in any of them, in the future they could have to do without, if people don't return their phones, for free of course.
