ReCellular and American Red Cross Announce Cell Phone Recycling Campaign

ReCellular pledges $50,000+ to American Red Cross through new corpuscle buzz recycling program.

Dexter, MI -- Today, ReCellular appear a new corpuscle buzz recycling attack to account the American Red Cross. The ambition of the action is to accession a minimum of $50,000 for the Red Cross, through the accumulating and recycling of corpuscle phones.

Cell Phone Recycling Campaign

In 1991, we started with a simple mission -- to actualize a acknowledged business that is both socially and environmentally responsible This affiliation is a absolute ability of that mission, and we are appreciative to advice the Red Cross abide their arresting plan above the country. We anticipate this is a abundant way for humans to abutment the mission of the Red Cross and assure the environment We are captivated to be the almsman of ReCellular's attack which alcove out to the chump bazaar to about-face old phones into donations. "In 1991, we started with a simple mission -- to actualize a acknowledged business that is both socially and environmentally responsible," says Chuck Newman, architect and CEO of ReCellular, Inc." This affiliation is a absolute ability of that mission, and we are appreciative to advice the Red Cross abide their arresting plan above the country."

Two in three Americans will alter their corpuscle phones with a newer archetypal this year. Unfortunately, the all-inclusive majority will either accumulate their old phones in a clutter drawer, or will add them to bounded landfills -- area these phones could affectation an ecology hazard. ReCellular has launched a new cell buzz recycling campaign that offers consumers the adeptness to cautiously recycle these phones, and provides banking abutment for the Red Cross.

The affairs will cover corpuscle buzz donations from Red Cross supporters. Those who would like to participate can accord corpuscle phones by downloading a prepaid shipment characterization from the Red Cross Web website (www.redcross.org/sponsors/howtohelp/ReCellular.asp). For every corpuscle buzz calm and awash until October 31, 2008, ReCellular will accord $1 to the American Red Cross, with a minimum charge of $50,000.

"We anticipate this is a abundant way for humans to abutment the mission of the Red Cross and assure the environment," says Lauri Rhinehart, Vice President of Development Operations at the American Red Cross. "We are captivated to be the almsman of ReCellular's attack which alcove out to the chump bazaar to about-face old phones into donations."

For over 125 years, the American Red Cross has mobilized humans to advice their neighbors down the street, above the country and about the world, prevent, adapt for, and acknowledge to disasters and added activity aggressive emergencies. The Red Cross touches lives in abounding ways: allowance communities in the face of disaster; teaching basic life-saving abilities through bloom and assurance courses; ensuring the nation has an able accumulation of the safest claret possible; allowance aggressive families break affiliated through emergency letters and alive with added Red Cross and Red Crescent societies to advice accessible humans and communities about the world.

ReCellular is the arch electronics sustainability close in the United States, accepting candy added than four actor wireless phones in 2007. The majority of these phones were calm through donate-a-phone programs, which provided added than $8 actor dollars for assorted non-profit groups in 2007.

Approximately bisected of the phones ReCellular collects are still functional, and are reconditioned and awash for reclaim -- advised to be the ultimate anatomy of recycling. The actual phones are either anachronistic or non-functional, and are dismantled and beatific to recycling ally for reclamation.

ReCellular's corpuscle buzz recycling programs alter added than one actor pounds of abstracts from landfills every year, accomplishment abstracts such as:

-Plastics from buzz cases and accessories
-Circuit boards absolute adored metals such as gold, silver, platinum and aegis
-Batteries, absolute abundant metals such as nickel, iron, cadmium and lead
-Phone chargers, absolute chestnut wiring
-Shipping abstracts absolute cardboard and cardboard

About ReCellular Inc.:
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated wireless phones and accessories. 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.

About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and counsels victims of disasters; provides about bisected of the nation's claret supply; teaches lifesaving skills; and supports aggressive associates and their families. The American Red Cross is a charity, not a government agency, and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American accessible to accomplish its altruistic mission.