As there is a rapid increase in the use of mobile phones they have constituted for a little percentage on e-waste Mountain and the manufactures are aware to the issue. Leading brands such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG etc are going for an eco friendly or a green design. By including the substances which reduces the hazardous in their instruments. When it comes to the energy performance of the cell phones, it has been increased to another problem where the charges are left unplugged in the sockets, can consume energy anywhere around 0.1-0.5 watts.
Though it looks very very less, but when taken in a global scenario it becomes a major cause. By the growing demand for cell phones and the frequent up-gradation makes the other phones retired posing a threat for the environment. The most mobile phones have a kind of component which needs special kind of treatment to lessen their impact on the environment. Convergence has become a helpful measure in fighting the environmental crisis, where instead of buying new instruments the purpose would be solved by the one handset itself.
