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Old cell phone worth 10% what you paid for it?

Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in Technology

Donate it! It’s tax deductible and in most cases the shipping is free… Fewer than 1 in 10 cell phones in recycled. The cell phone and its components represent energy that has been used to create that phone. Anything that can be done to prolong that phone’s useful life reduces or postpones the need to use energy to create a new cell phone. And the less energy used, the less carbon is released into Earth’s atmosphere. With world wide cell phone sales projected to top 1 billion per year in 2009, any effort to reduce those numbers could yield large energy and environmental savings.

Cell Phones for Soldiers

Cell phone donation for several organizations

Cell phone for 911 emergency phones

Or just recycle it at a location near you

I learned most of this from carbonrally.com :)

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