Mischa Altmann

So here’s a good question: what happens to your old cell phone (mobile phone, handy, or whatever you may want to call it) once you’ve bought/got a new one?

I have accumulated a fair few myself (granted most of them are from friends, have some sort of problem and are waiting to be tortured with a multimeter). And I have also been tempted to give them to charities who can collect up to £5 per donated mobile. But what happens to it once it’s donated?

Check out the short video on The Secret Life of Cell Phones - An INFORM Project or watch it directly on YouTube.

It’s been around for a while, but I still go back to gapminder.org to make sense of UN data in particular basic data relating to poverty, health, etc.

In particular, I got stuck exploring Human Development Trends, 2005 available in the Presentations section.

Be careful - the site is addictive!

Quoting TfL Conditions of Carriage

7.7 National Rail Railcard discounts
For details of how to obtain a National Rail Railcard, see 5.9.
If you hold a Young Persons, Senior, Disabled Persons or HM Forces Railcard and an Oyster card with the National Rail discount loaded on it, your Oyster daily price cap will be 34% lower than the equivalent adult-rate cap.
This discount is only available to the cardholder. If you are travelling with other people who are entitled to a discount on any printed tickets bought in association with your Railcard, the entire group must purchase and use printed tickets.

In short: Oyster + Rail Card = 66% daily price cap

But how does one get this discount?! I’m off to the ticket office to check it out…