Recycle Your Mobile Device
Here are several ways you can recycle or dispose of your old device in an environmentally responsible way:
In the USA
- Betterbuyback.com specializes in Sprint and Nextel phones but will buy back other manufacturers’ devices as well.
- CellForCash returns money for cell phones, ranging up to about $100 for late-model devices.
- CollectiveGood collects phones and donates the proceeds to groups like the Humane Society of the United States, CARE, The Center for Domestic Violence Prevention and Congo Global Action.
- GRC Wireless Recycling helps organize NGO's (non-governmental organizations) and schools fundraise via cell-phone recycling and also directs funds from donated cell phones to charity partners.
- iRethink exchanges donated cell phones and ink-jet and toner cartridges for rewards points convertible to cash or new imaging supplies.
- Phone Fund helps organize old-cell-phone drives and pays your group for the phones (and other gadgets) it collects, then refurbishes or recycles them.
- ReCellular Inc. buys old phones and phone chargers to refurbish and resell.
- Recycle My Cell Phone recycles cell phones, PDAs and pagers and conducts education on behalf of mineral-development watchdog Earthworks.
- Recycling for Charities donates proceeds from cell phones, PDAs, Palm devices, digital cameras and iPods to the charity of your choice.
- RIPMobile collects cell phones and some PDAs and gives you RIPMobile Points good for various items — from Circuit City goodies to Red Cross donations.
- SellYourCell.com will buy your cell phone based on its make and model. (Caution: SellYourCell.com generally only buys phones that are less than two years old, meaning that a four-year-old phone is essentially worthless in cash terms.)
- TechMedics recycles cell phones and gives you a percentage of what it earns as EnviroRebates, which can be expressed as either a check to you or a donation to a wide range of charities.
- Wireless ... The New Recyclable is wireless-industry lobbyist CTIA’s (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association) recycling initiative. Its site leads to several ways to sell, recycle or donate your phone via eBay Inc.
In Canada
- The Charitable Recycling Team assists companies by making it easy to dispose of used cell phones.
- thINK FOOD / Phones-for-Food project aims to alleviate hunger and divert waste from landfill sites by raising funds for local food banks through the process of recycling used printer cartridges and cell phones.
Internationally
- Recycle Your Mobile is committed to the removal of unwanted mobile telephones and inkjet cartridges, putting them to good use rather than allowing them to end up in landfill sites around the UK. They also have a branch office in Hong Kong.
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