The evaluation of material and energy consumption of mobile phones is an important task in the end-of-life management of electronic products (Yu et al., 2010). The CO2emissions per subscriber in a year for a 3G system are equivalent to the emissions from driving a car for 250–380 kms or to 19–21 l of gasoline (Nokia, 2005).Soonenschein et al. (2009) found that energy consumption for the mobile phone call averages 0 5 kWh, whereas the washing machine uses about 0 43 kWh. Besides, GroupeSpeciale Mobile Association (2012) mentioned that if 10% of theworld’s mobile phone users turned off their chargers after use, the energy saved in one year could power 60,000 European homes.