Comments on: Shocker, Americans Don't Recycle Cell Phones

By: zendoo

zendoo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:32:47 +0000

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By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:30:55 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

By: Cleantechguy

Cleantechguy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:28:38 +0000

Great little site called http://www.secondrotation.com pays for old cell phones.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:04:47 +0000

It's kind of unfair to say that "only 10% is recycled". Selling them, giving them to friends and charities, and keeping using them is really better than recycling. Less than half of the phones, according to the chart, are "lost" to the planet.

By: Michael Caton

Michael Caton — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:37 +0000

The good news is that 27.1% are being reused in some form (given to friends, sold or donated to charity). Hopefully charities recycle the ones they don't use.

I had 3 old ones stored away in a drawer and recycled them when we had an electronic waste recycling day at work.