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50 million wireless phones are purchased over the holiday season according to ReCellular. That also means a lot of old phones are thrown out. Many people would like to recycle them but may not know how to go about it.

The “Use Less Stuff Report” said that recycling 50 million cell phones would be equivalent to 37.5 million gallons of gas. That is a lot of fuel! So what do we do with our old phones? You can go to ReCellular to trade your old phone in, get best buy digital dollars and benefit the environment. Half the broken phones are fixed and resold but the ones that can’t be saved are broken down and recycled. ReCellular was recently recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s “Green 50” companies.

Richard KarnVerizon also has a national recycling program called “Call2Recycle™” that will take your rechargeable batteries and recycle them. Richard Karn or “Al” from Home Improvement is the spokesperson for Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC).

If you just toss them away with your regular garbage, they can cause some serious damage to the environment so consider dropping your old ones off. It might not seem like much but if we all did that with one battery, we would be keeping tons of toxins out of our landfills.

I’m not big on cell phones but my older kids and husband are into them. I suppose they come in handy for emergencies but they’re not my ideal present. It’s funny how people buy you what they would actually want. I received a couple of cell phones over the years and my family ended up taking them over. I need to keep that in mind and make sure I know what everyone else would like and use.


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