Recycle Phones For Money

On average, most people replace their phones every 18 months to 2 years. Considering how many cell phone users there are in the world, that’s quite a few phones just laying around not being used anymore! Whether they are broken or not, the old phones wind up in a box somewhere in the basement, completely forgotten and never to be used again.

Not only is this a waste of space, but in many cases old phones and old batteries can be hazardous to the environment if left lying around. Because they are harmful, they cannot be disposed of like the rest of our garbage. So what can we do with our old phones?
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Mobile Phone Clamp Down - Recycling Becoming Mandatory

Mobile Phone Clamp Down - Recycling Becoming Mandatory by Rick Hendershot

Westchester County in New York will soon be one of the first places in the U.S. to require consumers to recycle their old cell phones. The legislation will be backed up by fines of up to $250 for people caught trashing their old phones.

Jurisdictions across the country have been wrestling with the problem of outdated phones ending up in landfills and being burned in incinerators. The phones contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals like arsenic, zinc, copper and lead.

Many areas of the country have voluntary recycling programs. Most put the onus on cell phone retailers to recycle phones when new ones are purchased. But the New York county law is one of the first that makes it mandatory for consumers to recycle their old phones — and backs it up with fines.
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Recycle cell phones? Absolutely!

Did you know that you can actually recycle your old or used cell phones? If you’re like most people, you probably have one or two hidden in a drawer somewhere. In a few months or years, you’ll rediscover these hidden phones and having no further use to you, these old units will most likely end up in your garbage bin and thence, in your city’s landfill.

But there’s a better, more environmentally-responsible, even more profitable way to dispose of your old mobile phones. Cell phone recycling is the answer.

There may be around 700 million used or old cellular phones in America today, with approximately 125 million discarded handsets added every year. According to a study done by a market intelligence firm iSuppli Corporation in 2007, 36.8 percent stored their phones in their drawers, 10.2 percent threw them away or declared these as lost or stolen, and only 9.4 percent recycled their used or old phones. In actual numbers, that’s 10 million old mobile phones rotting away in our country’s landfills and 37 million more gathering dust in the drawers of America - and that’s from 2007 alone!
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