Are you the owner of an old iPhone or two? If so, you may be sitting on a stash of cash. Research from musicMagpie has found that the average household in the UK has an estimated £842.12 total worth of unused tech gathering dust at home.
Whether it’s due to the boredom-driven lockdown purchases, new hobbies, the need for new tech to work from home, or a newfound desire to get the latest gadgets, this new research means the amount of unused tech in people’s homes has risen 41% since the start of the pandemic, the tech recycling firm said.
When it comes to our old phones, musicMagpie found that each household in the UK has an average of two unused phones lying around. Using its internal data, musicMagpie discovered that the average price paid for phones traded in with it is £207.72, which means UK households could be sitting on an average of £448.68 in unused phones alone.
