Sunday, December 20, 2009

40,000 Cell Phones to Be Replaced on Earth Day; ReCellular Provides Five Reasons to Recycle Cell Phones

Leading Electronics Sustainability Firm ReCellular encourages consumers to "Go Green" and recycle corpuscle phones in account of Earth Day.

Dexter, MI April 20, 2008 - Americans abandon on boilerplate 40,000 corpuscle phones every day - or 150 actor phones a year. For a association so acclimatized to arresting and discarding, ReCelluar is auspicious anybody to "Go Green" and recycle corpuscle phones that they no best use.

We are appreciative to accommodate our ability and ability in wireless recycling to advice accomplish 'Going Green' for Earth Day a reality This is a abundant day to body acquaintance for the baby things all of us can do to accomplish a difference. Reusing or recycling corpuscle phones has a cogent account to ecology efforts. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, bearing 150 actor corpuscle phones would absorb abundant activity to ability 285,000 homes for a year, and aftermath added than 258 actor kilograms of carbon emissions. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 150 actor phones contains $94 actor of adored metals - not factoring the amount of accretion - including gold, platinum, silver, aegis and copper.

"We are appreciative to accommodate our ability and ability in wireless recycling to advice accomplish 'Going Green' for Earth Day a reality," says Chuck Newman, architect and CEO of ReCellular. "This is a abundant day to body acquaintance for the baby things all of us can do to accomplish a difference."

In account of one of the better ecology movements of the year, ReCellular has aggregate 5 affidavit to recycle corpuscle phones that are awkward about in your board drawer:

1. They acceptable still work. More than bisected of the phones ReCellular receives are still functional, and can be refurbished and reused - generally in developing countries. The United Nations ranks acceptance to communications as the second-most important contributor to above of life, afterwards health-care.

2. They accommodate admired materials. Recycling corpuscle buzz ambit boards yields added gold per ton than the boilerplate ton of ore from gold abundance operations, as able-bodied as added adored metals such as silver, platinum and palladium.

3. They can be environmentally damaging. Like all rechargeable batteries, corpuscle phones accommodate abundant metals and chemicals that can be baneful in landfills, and should consistently be recycled.

4. They are of value. ReCellular offers businesses up to $150 per phone, and their accommodating donate-a-phone programs aloft added than $8 actor per year for non-profit organizations.

5. They're confined no purpose in the drawer. Really, what are you befitting those corpuscle phones for? Send them in.

For added advice on how to recycle corpuscle phones, or to download a prepaid shipment characterization to accord your phone, go to ReCellular.com.

About ReCellular Inc.:
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the arch electronics sustainability firm. We accommodate solutions for the collection, reclaim and recycling of acclimated claimed electronics that accomplish banking acknowledgment for our partners, above articles for our customers, allotment for alms organizations, and aegis of the environment. Corporate, charitable, chump and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com.

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