What's the meaning of this sentence?
"The majority of the ‘old’ phones don’t ever make it as far as the rubbish dump. It is thought that there are about 85 million unused phones simply lying around in people’s houses. "
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There are a lot of old telephone sets. Most of them are not thrown away. People keep 85 millions of them at home, but they don't use them any more. (They use modern phones instead.)
the majority: most of
to make it to...: to arrive somewhere /to reach a place
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It means that people have not bothered to dispose/recycle their old phones when they bought new ones. 85,000,000 old phones are not being used.
Extra information for you: You can resell your old mobile or hand it in for recycling. Some old phones are worth a lot of money on EBAY now.
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