It turns out, phones have their own graveyard too.

The folks over at Technology review have come up with a splendid Photo Tour of a facility based in Michigan, USA; rightly called ReCellular. Working at the nation’s largest cellphone recycling plant, the employees browse through thousands of phones trying to find those which can be refurbished and reused. Of all the phones that land up at the facility, 60% of the phones are refurbished and sent back into the market. Some phones are so lucky, that they end up being reused as much as three times. 

Hope’s not lost for the other phones though, the ones that are barely damaged are broken down to their components. And the phones that are have wires or components hanging out are sent over to another facility, for smelting, which receives over 30,000 pounds of phones every month.

The list includes:

- a $40,000 US diamond encrusted iPhone from London jeweller Amosu
- a $140,000 US luxury Nokia from Austrian designer Peter Aloisson,featuring designer ringtones and wallpapers and an 18-karat white gold finish. Encased in more than 680 pink and white brilliant-cut diamonds–sparing only the screen and slide-out keyboard
- a $5,000 US phone unveiled by Christian Dior
- a $6,000 US phone soon to be revealed by watchmaker Tag Hauer
- and of course Vertu, whose phones range anywhere from $4,000 to $300,000 US

you can see photos here

Drool.