Comments on: Big Green Business of Cellphone Recycling

By: Crystal Adams

Crystal Adams — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:43:40 +0000

Go Green for Schools is a cell phone recycling program provided by Qwest which recycles cell phones responsibly while also raising money for education. All money raised is donated to preK-12 education initiatives in the states from which the phones were collected. For more information or to print a prepaid label for shipping your phone go to http://www.qwest.com/gogreenforschools .

By: Shocker, Americans Don’t Recycle Cell Phones « Earth2Tech

Shocker, Americans Don’t Recycle Cell Phones « Earth2Tech — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:02:15 +0000

[...] we’ll keep nagging you as it’s not only good for the planet, but is projected to be a $3 billion-a-year business by as early as 2012. Even the EPA has asked you [...]

By: Cellphone Recycling

Cellphone Recycling — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:28:11 +0000

[...] Rubens of GigaOm’s earth2tech has a very nice post titled “Big Green Business of Cellphone Recycling“ with lots of useful [...]

By: Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp Form E-Cycler « Earth2Tech

Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp Form E-Cycler « Earth2Tech — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:59:29 +0000

[...] global e-waste market is forecast to grow to $11 billion by 2009, with $3 billion in cell phones alone. Startups and even some retailers have been working to get in on this business but manufacturers [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:09:32 +0000

I think it is great that the cell phone industry is responding to the growing demand for a more easily recycled phone. A little bit of a slow down in the introduction of a new better model of super cool must have it or you're a loser model every six weeks , may also slow down the landfill mountain of cell phone plastic we now see piling up.

By: Craig Rubens

Craig Rubens — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:51:46 +0000

Thanks Marilyn. That is a great article. I just read it myself. The photos of children working in toxic smoke pulling out copper wiring are so very National Geographic.

I also wanted to put in another plug for GOOD Magazine's short video about e-waste.

By: Marilyn Terrell

Marilyn Terrell — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:27:36 +0000

National Geographic has a feature in their Jan. issue called “High-tech Trash” about where like cellphones, tvs and computers go to die. Most of them end up being exported to developing countries where they are “recycled” by being dumped in huge smoldering piles picked over by barefoot children looking for precious metals:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/carroll-text.html