Donate Used Cell Phones to OldPhonesforCharity.com, The Easiest Way to Help a Worth Cause

ReCellular launches affairs that enables consumers to abutment charities by recycling their acclimated corpuscle phones.

Dexter, Michigan -- The barrage of OldPhonesforCharity.com offers consumers the newest, and easiest, way to abutment non-profit groups such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Keep America Beautiful and Cell Phones for Soldiers. Through the new website, consumers can recycle their exceptionable acclimated corpuscle phones and absolute the gain - up to $50 per buzz - to the alignment of their choice.

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We achievement Old Phones for Charity will advice accession acquaintance that old corpuscle phones still accept value The individual act of altruistic your old corpuscle buzz for recycling through Old Phones for Charity offers bifold benefits, attention the ambiance by breach admired abstracts out of landfills and accouterment banking abutment to causes accordant to you, such as award a cure for breast cancer, abating hunger, or acknowledging ecology initiatives. Many humans aimlessly apperceive they shouldn't bandy their old phones away, but don't apperceive what to do with them With Old Phones for Charity, we are alms consumers a acute and acceptable band-aid that allowances the ambiance and added important causes like breast blight research. "We achievement Old Phones for Charity will advice accession acquaintance that old corpuscle phones still accept value," says Chuck Newman, architect and CEO of ReCellular. "The individual act of altruistic your old corpuscle buzz for recycling through Old Phones for Charity offers bifold benefits, attention the ambiance by breach admired abstracts out of landfills and accouterment banking abutment to causes accordant to you, such as award a cure for breast cancer, abating hunger, or acknowledging ecology initiatives."

The Old Phones for Charity website currently has eight non-profit partners, including:
-   Susan G. Komen Foundation
-   March of Dimes
-   The NephCure Foundation
-   Phones for Food
-   Cell Phones for Soldiers
-   Call to Protect
-   International Myeloma Foundation
-   Keep America Beautiful

To accord acclimated corpuscle phones, consumers artlessly download and book a prepaid commitment characterization from Old Phones for Charity. Phones are alien to ReCellular, which reimburses the alms for anniversary buzz collected, based on the archetypal and action of the phone.

ReCellular pioneered the Donate a Phone accommodating recycling affairs with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's (CTIA) Wireless Foundation. ReCellular has back generated about $50 actor for charities, and accustomed abiding programs with ally including Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Sprint and Best Buy.

Approximately bisected of the phones ReCellular collects are reused - advised the ultimate anatomy of recycling. Functional phones are reconditioned and reprogrammed afore accepting awash to wholesalers from added than 40 countries, generally accouterment affordable acceptance to telecommunications in developing countries.

Non-functional acclimated corpuscle phones are dismantled and recycled in accordance with Environmental Protection Agency standards. ReCellular's recycling ally accost admired abstracts such as gold, platinum, nickel and plastic, and alter potentially adverse abstracts from entering landfills.

The abeyant for the Old Phones for Charity affairs is around limitless: an estimated 130 actor corpuscle phones are replaced in the U.S. every year. Currently, alone two percent of these phones are recycled, while the blow are generally kept in clutter drawers afore ultimately accepting discarded.

"Many humans aimlessly apperceive they shouldn't bandy their old phones away, but don't apperceive what to do with them," says Newman. "With Old Phones for Charity, we are alms consumers a acute and acceptable band-aid that allowances the ambiance and added important causes like breast blight research."

About ReCellular Inc., a Global Recycler and Reseller of Used Cell Phones
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated corpuscle 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.

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.

ReCellular Announces $15 Million Capital Investment and Plans For Expanded Cell Phone Recycling Operations

Global corpuscle buzz recycling aggregation ReCellular prepares to aggrandize operations and advanced advance with basic investment from Investor Growth Capital (IGC).

Dexter, MI -- ReCellular, the world's arch electronics-sustainability firm, appear today that Investor Growth Capital (IGC) is advance $15 actor in a Series A Preferred Stock financing. The investment adds a growing clean-tech aggregation to IGC's portfolio, and will accredit ReCellular to aggrandize operations and advanced its accelerated acquirement growth.

"This investment marks a anniversary in ReCellular's history," says ReCellular CEO Chuck Newman. "It marks our alteration from a acknowledged start-up in the arising acreage of corpuscle buzz recycling into the acknowledged all-around baton in electronics sustainability."

This investment marks a anniversary in ReCellular's history It marks our alteration from a acknowledged start-up in the arising acreage of corpuscle buzz recycling into the acknowledged all-around baton in electronics sustainability. Our ambition was to advance a assisting aggregation that was socially and environmentally responsible Through the adherence of a accomplished aggregation of people, ReCellular has exceeded all expectations. With IGC's abutment and investment, we will badly aggrandize the aggregation and set the accepted for success in electronics-sustainability and clean-tech operations. We see amazing advance abeyant in ReCellular We chose to accomplice with IGC because of their abysmal ability of the sector, their acquaintance with growth-stage companies, and the amount they can accompany through affluent networks in the U.S., Europe, and Asia We candy about 5,000 phones in our aboriginal year of business Today, we get an boilerplate of 24,000 phones - abundant to ample seven mail trucks - every day, 5 canicule a week. With the abutment and assets of IGC, we see the abeyant to bifold the amount of mail trucks carrying to ReCellular in the actual abreast future. Newman has been a avant-garde in the cell buzz recycling exchange back 1991. ReCellular has accomplished atomic advance by capitalizing on two allied trends: consumers' growing acquaintance of ecology issues, and the accretion sales of new wireless handsets.

As a result, ReCellular's revenues accept added an boilerplate of 25 percent for the accomplished eight years. Today, the aggregation is the arch collector, recycler and refurbisher of corpuscle phones in the world: in 2008, the aggregation is on clue to aggregate added than 6 actor phones and recycle added than 1.5 actor pounds of material. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, recycling 6 actor phones reduces carbon emissions by the agnate of 8,400 cars over a year.

"Our ambition was to advance a assisting aggregation that was socially and environmentally responsible," says Newman. "Through the adherence of a accomplished aggregation of people, ReCellular has exceeded all expectations. With IGC's abutment and investment, we will badly aggrandize the aggregation and set the accepted for success in electronics-sustainability and clean-tech operations."

IGC Investment Objectives
For IGC, the investment in ReCellular is allotment of the investment firm's "clean-tech" advance practice. The clean-tech area is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the market; according to the National Venture Capital Association, investment in clean-tech operations has added ten-fold over the accomplished 5 years, from $235 actor in 2003 to $2.6 billion in 2008.

"We see amazing advance abeyant in ReCellular," says Albert Kim, Vice President of IGC. "They accept revolutionized the electronics-sustainability industry by accouterment a acceptable band-aid for consumers to recycle their acclimated handsets, while at the aforementioned time extracting abundant amount from these phones to body a acknowledged business. We accept advised abounding clean-tech companies, including abounding in the corpuscle buzz recycling arena, and we acquainted that ReCellular was acutely the world's a lot of able corpuscle buzz reclaim and recycling firm."

IGC is the wholly endemic adventure basic arm of Investor AB, the better listed automated captivation aggregation in the Nordic region. IGC invests in high-quality, growth-oriented companies in North America, Europe and Asia.

IGC will advance $15 actor in ReCellular. In affiliation with the investment, Noah Walley and Albert Kim will accompany ReCellular's axle of directors. IGC will advice apprehend ReCellular's broadcast business plan by leveraging their aggregate acquaintance in architecture and developing world-class companies and by accessing their unique, all-around accord network.

"We chose to accomplice with IGC because of their abysmal ability of the sector, their acquaintance with growth-stage companies, and the amount they can accompany through affluent networks in the U.S., Europe, and Asia," says Newman.

ReCellular Growth Objectives
According to a contempo abstraction appear by Nokia, alone three percent of mobile-phone users recycle their old handsets, and bisected of wireless users are not acquainted that corpuscle phones can be recycled.
With an estimated 3.3 billion cell-phone users worldwide, and 130 actor phones retired in the U.S. every year, this abstraction illustrates the befalling for cogent advance in the all-around corpuscle buzz recycling and reclaim market.

ReCellular affairs to capitalize on this befalling to aggrandize the ability and appulse of the company. Among added initiatives, ReCellular affairs to:
 

Expand operations in Michigan, aperture new appointment facilities, accumulation processing in Washtenaw County, and decidedly accretion the amount of Michigan advisers Rapidly access buzz collections, absorption on direct-to-consumer and trade-in partnerships, and architecture chump acquaintance of the allowances of corpuscle buzz recycling Evaluate cardinal acquisitions of added electronics recycling businesses that could accompaniment ReCellular's ability and operations.
"We candy about 5,000 phones in our aboriginal year of business," says Newman. "Today, we get an boilerplate of 24,000 phones - abundant to ample seven mail trucks - every day, 5 canicule a week. With the abutment and assets of IGC, we see the abeyant to bifold the amount of mail trucks carrying to ReCellular in the actual abreast future."

Advisor
XMS Capital Partners served as absolute banking adviser to ReCellular in affiliation with this transaction.

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

About Investor Growth Capital
Investor Growth Capital (IGC) is the wholly-owned adventure basic arm of Investor AB, a about traded automated captivation company, listed on the Stockholm Exchange. IGC was formed in the mid-1990s to advance in high-quality, growth-oriented companies. Today its 30 investment professionals are developing a portfolio whose amount exceeds $800 actor from offices amid in New York, Menlo Park, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. Investor AB is a arch actor in a amount of European bunch corporations, including ABB, Astra Zeneca, Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Ericsson and SEB. For about a aeon Investor AB's business aesthetics has been to body best-in-class companies in sectors area the accumulation has able ability and a networking advantage. IGC shares that access and allowances from Investor AB's all-encompassing all-around arrangement of companies and chief managers. To apprentice added appointment investorgrowthcapital.com.

About XMS Capital Partners
XMS Capital Partners is a bazaar investment case focused on acceptable advance companies with banking and cardinal alternatives. To apprentice more, amuse appointment xmscapital.com.