Instead of tossing your gadgets in a landfill when you’re finished with them, get paid to recycle them.
Some 550 million used mobile phones in the U.S. are waiting to go into landfills. Only about 1 percent of what is out there is being collected and recycled right now, and the environmental consequences of hundreds of millions of phones going into the garbage can rather than being recycled are severe -- hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic waste (mobile phones contain lead, cadmium, mercury, beryllium, arsenic, and much more) are threatening our food and water supplies.
In a perfect world, everyone would recycle their mobile phones, and this problem would simply go away. But recycling is a learned behavior, and it will probably be some time before everyone learns to apply it to used consumer electronics, not just paper, glass, and cans.
GreenPhone.com reaches out to people who have used mobile phones, and pays them to keep that toxic waste out of landfills and incinerators. This accomplishes their mission of protecting the environment, getting phones into reuse, and ingraining recycling as a rewarding experience.
CollectiveGood, the parent company of GreenPhone, is well known for award-winning mobile device recycling programs that fund charities via the recycling process, converting old cell phones into financial support for groups. CollectiveGood has programs in place with hundreds of non-profits of all sorts, has collected hundreds of thousands of phones and generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity.
A portion of the profits from geenphone are used to plant trees in the US and overseas to help clean the air and cool the planet, in keeping with the company's commitment to energy-saving programs.
CollectiveGood refurbishes and recycles mobile phones in an environmentally friendly manner. The company also collects pagers, PDAs and ink jet cartridges at more than 5000 locations throughout North America.
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