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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Donate Cell Phones to Help U.S. Troops in Honor of Veterans Day

Cell Phones for Soldiers urges consumers to accord corpuscle phones to its Veterans Day drive. Proceeds will be acclimated to accommodate calling cards to American troops overseas.

Norwell, Mass. -- More than 150,000 troops are confined across abroad from their families. Cell Phones for Soldiers is calling on all Americans to abutment these adventurous men and women by altruistic your retired corpuscle phones to advice our troops alarm home. With your help, Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to aggregate over 50,000 corpuscle phones to advice accumulate troops affiliated with their families. The phones are recycled or resold and gain are acclimated to acquirement calling cards that are beatific to troops overseas. Each donated buzz provides an hour of allocution time on a calling agenda for soldiers abroad.

Veterans Day, is Nov. 11, 2007. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "of the 25 actor veterans currently alive, about three of every four served during a war or an official aeon of hostility. About a division of the nation's citizenry -- about 70 actor humans -- are potentially acceptable for VA allowances and casework because they are veterans, ancestors associates or survivors of veterans."

of the 25 actor veterans currently alive, about three of every four served during a war or an official aeon of hostility. About a division of the nation's citizenry -- about 70 actor humans -- are potentially acceptable for VA allowances and casework because they are veterans, ancestors associates or survivors of veterans. For the admired ones of soldiers confined abroad, Veterans Day is a day to account those who accept served in the accomplished and adequate all the freedoms we adore in the present We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, accouterment families with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones overseas. We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty. Support our Veterans and our troops. Donate your corpuscle phones today.

"For the admired ones of soldiers confined abroad, Veterans Day is a day to account those who accept served in the accomplished and adequate all the freedoms we adore in the present," says Brittany Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder. "We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, accouterment families with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones overseas."

For advice on how to accord corpuscle phones to the Veterans Day Drive, appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit alignment has aloft about $1 actor in donations and broadcast added than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers confined overseas.

"We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty."

Through added fundraising efforts, the Bergquist ancestors hopes to accession added than $9 actor in the next 5 years to armamentarium new programs, such as accouterment video phones and prepaid account to acquiesce soldiers abroad to see their families on a approved basis.

Phones donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers are beatific to Michigan-based ReCellular area they are recycled.

About Cell Phones for Soldiers:
Cell Phones for Soldiers was created by Brittany & Robbie Bergquist of Norwell MA. After account a adventure about a soldier who ran up a huge buzz bill calling home from Iraq, these two teenagers absitively to advice out. They started by aperture an anniversary with $21.00 of their own money. They are accession banknote donations and old corpuscle phones. The corpuscle phones are recycled for banknote and the gain are acclimated to buy prepaid calling cards for our soldiers confined in the Middle East. Cell Phones for Soldiers is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Their efforts accept motivated humans and businesses about the country to accord to this aces cause. Their ambition is to accommodate every US soldier with a way to alarm home for free. For added information, amuse appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

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 and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com. Consumer information, including the Cell Phone Data Eraser, alms fundraising programs, and advice on how to donate corpuscle phones, is accessible at WirelessRecycling.com.

Donate Cell Phones to Help U.S. Troops Call Home for the Holidays

Consumers can accord corpuscle phones to Cell Phones for Soldiers, a non-profit alignment which aims to accommodate every U.S. soldier with a way to alarm home for free. Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to aggregate added than 25,000 corpuscle phones in December to advice troops break affiliated with their families this anniversary season.

Norwell, MA -- More than 150,000 troops confined across will absorb this anniversary division abroad from their families. The non-profit Cell Phones for Soldiers accumulation is calling on all Americans to abutment these adventurous men and women by altruistic bare corpuscle phones. Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to aggregate over 25,000 corpuscle phones during the ages of December to advice accumulate troops affiliated with their families.

"The anniversary division is an abnormally alone time for soldiers abroad, and for their families at home," says Brittany Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder. "We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, to advice accommodate soldiers with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones for the holidays."

The anniversary division is an abnormally alone time for soldiers abroad, and for their families at home We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, to advice accommodate soldiers with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones for the holidays. We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty. Cell Phones for Soldiers is agreeable Americans to appearance their abutment in one of three ways:

- Individuals are arrive to accord corpuscle phones by downloading a prepaid shipment characterization from cellphonesforsoldiers.com, or to locate a bounded accumulating website in their area
- Existing accumulating sites are arrive to download a Cell Phones for Soldiers assurance from cellphonesforsoldiers.com for affectation in their business
- Businesses and grassroots organizations are arrive to alpha their own accumulating drive, and can appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com for accumulating tips, and instructions for prepaid shipment of calm phones

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit alignment has aloft about $1 actor in donations and broadcast added than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers confined overseas.

"We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty."

Through added fundraising efforts, the Bergquist ancestors hopes to accession added than $9 actor in the next 5 years to armamentarium new programs, such as accouterment video phones and prepaid account to acquiesce soldiers abroad to see their families on a approved basis.

Phones donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers are beatific to Michigan-based ReCellular, which pays up to $50 for anniversary donated buzz - abundant to accommodate twenty-five hours of calling cards to soldiers abroad.

Approximately bisected of the phones ReCellular processes are reconditioned and resold to broad companies in over 40 countries about the world. Phones and apparatus that cannot be refurbished are dismantled and recycled to accost materials, including:
 

    Gold, argent and platinum from ambit boards Copper base from buzz chargers Nickel, iron, cadmium and advance from array packs Plastic from buzz cases and accessories
    For advice on how to accord corpuscle phones this anniversary season, appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

    About Cell Phones for Soldiers:
    Cell Phones for Soldiers was created by Brittany & Robbie Bergquist of Norwell MA. After account a adventure about a soldier who ran up a huge buzz bill calling home from Iraq, these two teenagers absitively to advice out. They started by aperture an anniversary with $21.00 of their own money. They are accession banknote donations and old corpuscle phones. The corpuscle phones are recycled for banknote and the gain are acclimated to buy prepaid calling cards for our soldiers confined in the Middle East. Cell Phones for Soldiers is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Their efforts accept motivated humans and businesses about the country to accord to this aces cause. Their ambition is to accommodate every US soldier with a way to alarm home for free. For added information, amuse appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

    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 and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com. Consumer information, including the Cell Phone Data Eraser, alms fundraising programs, and advice on how to donate corpuscle phones, is accessible at WirelessRecycling.com.

Donating Cell Phones Can Increase Your 2008 Tax Refund and Support Troops Serving Abroad

Liberty Tax ally with Cell Phones for Soldiers to action added abutment this tax season. By altruistic corpuscle phones, consumers can access their tax acquittance and advice accommodate calling cards to U.S. troops confined overseas.

Norwell, MA February 3, 2008 - Liberty Tax and Cell Phones for Soldiers ambition to admonish you that altruistic corpuscle phones to advice troops confined abroad alarm home is a tax answer that can advice access your return. When you accord your old phone, Liberty Tax will accord an added $5 to Cell Phones for Soldiers.

Cell Phones for Soldiers

We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty. More than 150,000 troops confined across are abroad from their homes and families. The non-profit Cell Phones for Soldiers is calling on all Americans to abutment these adventurous men and women by altruistic corpuscle phones that they no best need. Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to aggregate over 25,000 corpuscle phones during tax division to advice accumulate troops affiliated with their families.

"We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty."

Through added fundraising efforts, the Bergquist ancestors hopes to accession added than $9 actor in the next 5 years to armamentarium new programs, such as accouterment video phones and prepaid account to acquiesce soldiers abroad to see their families on a approved basis.

Phones donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers are beatific to Michigan-based ReCellular, which pays up to $50 for anniversary donated buzz - abundant to accommodate twenty-five hours of calling cards to soldiers abroad.

It's simple to advice the troops during this tax season. Simply appointment your bounded Liberty Tax abundance if advancing your taxes and accord your old corpuscle phone. You can address off the donation. A acquittance for you and a alarm home from our troops is a acceptable adjustment for all of us.

Local association can abutment the accumulating drive by altruistic their corpuscle phones at Liberty Tax locations. Visit libertytax.com to apprentice more, abide your taxes online and accord your old corpuscle phone.

About Liberty Tax Service:
Liberty Tax Service is the fastest growing retail tax alertness aggregation in the industry's history. Founded in 1997 by CEO John T. Hewitt, a avant-garde in the tax industry, Liberty Tax Service (libertytax.com) has able over 5,000,000 alone assets tax allotment and currently operates over 2,900 offices throughout the United States and Canada. The aggregation affairs to accessible up to 500 new offices in January 2008.

Liberty Tax Service provides computerized assets tax preparation, cyberbanking filing and acquittance loans. With an accent on chump account including analysis assistance, a money aback guarantee, and chargeless tax acknowledgment checking, Liberty Tax Service is able-bodied accepted for its able charge to its applicant base.

With 38 years of tax industry experience, Hewitt stands as the a lot of accomplished CEO in the tax alertness business, accepting aswell founded Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (NYSE:JTX).

About Cell Phones for Soldiers:
Cell Phones for Soldiers was created by Brittany & Robbie Bergquist of Norwell MA. After account a adventure about a soldier who ran up a huge buzz bill calling home from Iraq, these two teenagers absitively to advice out. They started by aperture an anniversary with $21.00 of their own money. They are accession banknote donations and old corpuscle phones. The corpuscle phones are recycled for banknote and the gain are acclimated to buy prepaid calling cards for our soldiers confined in the Middle East. Cell Phones For Soldiers is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Their efforts accept motivated humans and businesses about the country to accord to this aces cause. Their ambition is to accommodate every US soldier with a way to alarm home for free. For added information, amuse appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

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. Consumer information, including the Cell Phone Data Eraser, alms fundraising programs, and advice on donating corpuscle phones, is accessible at WirelessRecycling.com.

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.

ReCellular Logo

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.

Cell Phones Valued at More Than $300 Million Tucked Away Every Month

U.S. Consumers retire over 11 actor corpuscle phones every month. CellForCash.com wants to buy them all.

Ocala, FL -- Last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, U.S. consumers purchased some 104 actor corpuscle phones for a absolute of $13.5 billion. Over the next 18 months those corpuscle phones, all 104 million, will be retired.

CTIA - The Wireless Association puts the absolute amount of U.S. corpuscle buzz users over 200 million. The industry estimates that the boilerplate U.S. wireless user upgrades their old corpuscle buzz every 18 months. That agency consumers acquirement 11 actor new corpuscle phones every month.

That’s a lot of corpuscle phones. But what makes those numbers even added affecting is that abounding of those adorned new corpuscle phones will be replacing earlier archetypal phones – phones that plan accomplished but don’t accept all the accretion and whistles of the agleam new models.

So what happens to all those old-model corpuscle phones, anyway? James Mosieur, arch controlling administrator of RMS Communications Group Inc., hopes they acquisition their way into his mailbox.

RMS is one of the nation’s arch recycler and re-marketer of old corpuscle phones. The aggregation in actuality pays banknote to humans who advertise their old phones to RMS via their website, www.CellForCash.com.

“For about every new corpuscle buzz purchased, one is retired” said Mosieur. “We appraisal that over $300 actor account of corpuscle phones are accession dust if they should be accession interest.”

Surveys advance that beneath than 10% of U.S. consumers actuate of their old corpuscle phones either by affairs them or through added recycling methods. This leaves over 10 actor corpuscle phones to accumulation up every ages in the homes of America.

“Currently our boilerplate pay out per corpuscle buzz is just over $30” said Mosieur, “when you accumulate that by the amount of corpuscle phones retired every month, that’s a huge number.”

"The numbers say it all-the chump electronics industry is hot," said Gary Shapiro, the Consumer Electronics Association's admiral and arch controlling officer. According to CEA, wireless handset sales will ability $16 billion in the U.S. next year.

The growing botheration has bent the absorption of assembly above the country. Several states are because legislation mandating corpuscle buzz recycling. California is the aboriginal accompaniment to canyon such a law. Beginning this July it will be actionable for a banker to advertise a corpuscle buzz in the State of California unless they accept a absolute recycling affairs in place.

“CellForCash.com offers a complete chump solution” said Mosieur. “Our affairs satisfies the needs of the consumer, the banker and the legislators.”

About CellForCash.com
CellForCash.com pays banknote for acclimated corpuscle phones, and makes the action simple by announcement the phones it will buy and the prices it will pay for them appropriate on the web site. It aswell provides sellers with already-addressed, postage-paid commitment boxes. The website lists over 500 models from 21 manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia and Samsung. For added advice appointment the web website at www.CellForCash.com.

About RMS Communications Group Inc.
Based in Ocala, Fla., RMS Communications Group Inc. provides consumers and businesses a acceptable way to get banknote for corpuscle phones that contrarily lay idle. Phones may authorize behindhand of architect – Motorola, Nokia, LG, etc.; or account provider - Sprint, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, etc. The aggregation generally ally with non-profit organizations that acquisition the accumulating and auction of old corpuscle phones to be an accomplished antecedent of revenue. More advice can be begin at http://www.CellPhoneRecycling.com.

Contact:
Conrad Melancon
President
800-627-2022

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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.

Fastest Growing Mobile Phone Recycling Company Changes Name

Major launches in Austria and Portugal; Further launches to chase in 2010. “I’m appreciative to say we pioneered the way for this growing allotment of the recycling industry ” said Mr Armstrong-Bell

(PRWeb UK/PRWEB ) December 11, 2009 -- The fastest growing adaptable buzz recycling aggregation has afflicted its name to zonzoo and re-launched its UK website: www.zonzoo.co.uk.

In 2009 abandoned zonzoo will accept recycled about two actor adaptable phones and estimates it will acute that amount in 2010. It recycles adaptable phones from the accessible and for such accumulated barter as Nectar, Tesco, T-Mobile, Telenor, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone.

zonzoo will abide a ample contributor to accommodating causes, altruistic 5% of anniversary phone’s amount to a alms of the customer’s choice, or if none is proposed, a alms from its own list. To date the aggregation has aloft in balance of over €10 million.

Known up to now in the UK as Greener Solutions trading as mobile2cash, zonzoo has been launched above all of the Company’s European offices, including those based in the UK, Germany, Spain, Holland and Belgium.

zonzoo is ablution new operations in Austria and Portugal next anniversary (which cover committed staff, offices and websites), and will accessible a added two new operations a ages throughout 2010.

The Company was started in 2001 by its present day Chief Executive Officer Mr Colin Armstrong-Bell with able blooming ambitions and was the aboriginal to action humans the adventitious to recycle their adaptable buzz online.

“I’m appreciative to say we pioneered the way for this growing allotment of the recycling industry and with three billion phones out there, and over a billion added accepting added anniversary year, we accept got to do far added about this growing botheration of bombastic mobiles,” said Mr Armstrong-Bell.
“The change of name to zonzoo reflects our abundant advance throughout Europe and the charge for a name that works above so abounding assorted cultures and peoples. We accept top hopes for zonzoo and see it as a casting name that represents the accomplished standards in recycling and one that can abide to accomplish cogent contributions to charities above the world.”

Editor’s Notes:
1. zonzoo ensures that acclimated phones are either bare of adverse components, or acclimated afresh in developing world.
2. Mobile phones accommodate admixture of elements that if broken down, can be chancy if not disposed of properly. These cover arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc.
3. Mobile phones that are re-used in the developing apple accommodate an affordable first-time advice accessory for families and individuals, convalescent bounded economies, above of activity and claimed safety.