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1 Reducing the Ecological Impact From Cell Phones
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2 The Life Cycle of Cell Phones
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3 Small Electronics and Battery Recycling Made Easy
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4 Ask a Geek Girl: What Do I Do With My Old iPod?
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5 All Good Cell Phones Go to Heaven
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6 Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes Push Cell Phone Recycling
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7 Radio Shack Launches Gadget Recycling Program
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8 LG Teams Up With BART to Encourage Cell Phone Recycling
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9 Website of the Day: Hope Phones
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10 Recycle Your Old Cell Phones For Charity
One of my planet-friendly faves, ReCellular is not only helping to make mother Earth a little more comfy, but is helping to aid the earthquake victims in Haiti as well. Although there are other high-tech ways to donate your cash to relief efforts, this one is a no-brainer: go to ReCellular's Phones For Haiti website and recycle your old phones. 100 percent of the phones' worth will go to the Red Read more
Recycling your cell phone is definitely great, but it can be a little anticlimactic. Send the old phone off to the recycling center, feel good about self and earth, but then it's over. No tangible karmic payoff. Hope Phones, however, lets you recycle that old phone and put it to good use (upcycling, you could call it). When you donate a cell phone to Hope Phones, the phone goes to a medical Read more
This past weekend as I exited the Embarcadero train station here in San Francisco, I noticed this ginormous cell phone recycling station. Upon further inspection (and research), I realized that LG has put up these Ecomobilize cell phone recycling bins in BART stations across the Bay Area to help combat the estimated 130 million cell phones that will end up in US landfills this year. I've already Read more
I recently discussed two easy ways to recycle your printer cartridges, but what about all of your other gadgets? By the sounds of it, Radio Shack has a pretty sweet new green trade-in program where they will take your old gadgets — whether it's a camera, MP3 player, gaming console, cell phone, or something else — determine the value of your products, then give you a Radio Shack gift card. Read more
Via their upcoming film The Spirit, stars Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes have teamed up with the Environmental Media Association to promote the importance of cell phone recycling to reduce CO2 emissions. The spots start running today on the Answer the Call website, with the ladies in character as Sand Saref and Silken Floss, respectively. I was already a big proponent of cell phone Read more
Upgrading your cell phone is something of a mild obsession around here, and with upgrading comes the inevitable question of what to do with an old cell phone. Half a billion (!) cell phones were replaced in 2007 alone, with many of them going to recycling centers, but what happens once they get there? Technology Review has a beautiful photo essay depicting ReCellular, the country's largest cell Read more
For this installment of Ask a Geek Girl, TeamSugar user amers230 asks what she should do with her old iPod, now that she's received the new iPod of her dreams: As a special surprise for my birthday my parents bought me the new iPod I've wanted for forever. Now that I have my 80GB Classic, I have no use for my 3-year-old 20GB. Thing is, I'm not sure what to do with it now. I'm asking around to Read more
I love the fact that gadget recycling is getting a whole lot easier. Last week I talked about the nifty Cell Phones for Soldiers bags that are now being included with Amazon orders. With these pre-paid bags, you can ship off your old phone to Recellular, a company that pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone. The U.S. Postal Service is also jumping on board with their new pilot Read more
Considering I have at least six old cell phones, this video by The Secret Life Series really got me thinking about the impact of cell phones on our environment and what can be done to minimize the dangerous amounts of e-waste. Featured on treehugger, "The Secret Life of Cell Phones" discusses the shocking statistics associated with cell phones, the dumping of nonworking electronics to China and Read more
I can't seem to not feel guilty when I throw out a banana peel, let alone a cell phone — which is probably why I have six old cell phones hiding in my closet! Thankfully the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just announced a cell-phone recycling program partnership with popular service providers, retailers, and device makers like LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Read more
