Flip your phone, donate your dongle: how to bring new life to unwanted tech – and why you should do it

When you finally get round to having a clearout, rather than binning your old gadgets, pass them on to people in need – and help bridge the digital divide

Most of us have a drawer of shame somewhere at home – a dusty cavern full of outdated mobiles, tablets, dongles and doodads that were once our pride and joy. It seems wasteful to throw them out, yet realistically we know they’ll never “come in useful one day”.

If we did let go of them, our old devices that can have the latest IOS update could be given shiny new lives – really making a difference in the hands of someone who needs them.