How to Recycle an Old Cell Phone

This advocacy can help in preserving our Mother Earth. Cell for cash sounds like a good idea. Cell for Cash is not a typo, but a service. Their website, cellforcash.com, is a cellular phone recycling service, where you get a cash reward for handing in your old cell phone. Some phones go for over $100, about the size of most small quick payday loans. Other companies have sprung up that have similar services, and it isn't surprising – cellular phones add up to about 65,000 tons of waste per year. Think of it as installment loans for the earth if you use Cell for Cash to recycle your old phone.

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My immediate concern is the disposal of OTC and prescription
medications. A request to donate containers for use in third world
countries prompted a call to my drugstore. I was told that flushing
is no longer advised but "wrap pills and put them in the garbage".
Whoopie!Anyone concerned enuf to see this knows how ridiculous that
is.Believe that drug companies should come up with a way for the
public to dispose of or neutralize old drugs. Any help here ??Nancy
- Oct.13,2007

We have a cell phone mostly for insurance against getting
stranded somewhere on the road. It did happen to me once when I was
going out of town to a radiation treatment early in the morning and
didn't know that the highway had become icy between the two towns
and was impassable. I was able to (1) reschedule my treatment, (2)
let my family know I was okay, (3) let a fellow traveler borrow it,
as he was en route to his work and was going to be very late. He
didn't have a cell phone! Also, sometimes our land line is down,
and we can call the phone company on the cell phone. If family is
traveling to meet at a designated place and somebody gets lost,
they can check in and get directions. These are worth the cost. We
don't use a plan with a company. There are too many gimmicks. We
bought a phone at Wal-Mart which just uses the prepaid minutes on a
phone card. And as we don't use the call phone to chat, we have
been most pleased with the setup. I think even with making the
occasional call when on the road, we never spend more than $5-10 a
month--much less than buying a plan. Don't want to be without it!
When we are traveling and family needs to contact us, it's taken
care of. Btw, the driver does NOT talk on the phone! That's the job
for the person riding shotgun.

A cell phone has become as common, if not more, than computers
in our society. It would be difficult for me to run my business
without either and/or both of these business tools.Another drop-off
location for all your old cell phones is your local Police Dept.
they donate them to needy/battered husbands and wifes, you may want
to consider this option.

A cell phone has become as common, if not more, than computers
in our society. It would be difficult for me to run my business
without either and/or both of these business tools.Gosh, ECooper, I
still do not have a cell phone and until I retired, I did not have
a credit card, either. Now that I am retired, I am a Network
Administrator for the disabled (blind, deaf, etc.), elderly, and
their supportive friends and family, a charity type organization. I
find it easy to run at least a charity type business with just a
computer. E-mail is the best tool, too, since I have a very bad
time remembering the spoken work correctly but find it easy "to get
it right" with the spoken word. Too, I have noticed that almost all
of the use of the cell phone in public is for personal calls rather
than business calls. It is not hard to know this as those who are
talking in public on the cell phone talk and laugh at the top of
their voice as if there is one one else around.Of course, I am an
old dinosaur that finds these new fangled gadgets a toy rather than
a tool and that their promotion is for the greedy and for the
needy. It is the same for the computer, too, when it is used as a
toy and not as a tool. Why else is there so much spam and so much
porno on the Internet?

Another option is www.donatemycellphone.org. This is the website
for Secure The Call Foundation. They take phones, inspect them,
clean them, then reprogram them to be used as free 911 phones. They
are given to seniors, crossing guards, neighborhood watch groups,
etc. They have had a big demand and need more phones. Just another
option! (P.S. - on their website, you can print out pre-paid
mailing labels.)

Cell phones. God, I hate them. And it seems that when you want
to change services "they" always tell you that you need a new
phone, because of updates on the systems, better new services,
yada, yada, yada. My hubby has to have one for his work but they
wont pay for it. I hate that and the fact that you cant keep using
the old cell phone you allready had. I think its a conspiracy that
goes along with this "throw away generation" of everything we buy
these days. I had one temporarly but its been sitting in my truck
for the past 5 years and I'm hoping its melted by now!!!

I have a recycling contest every year in my school. Students and
teachers bring in their old cell phones and ink cartridges. I box
them up and send them to a company called fundingfactory.com. We
get points which can be converted into money or can be traded in
for computer or playground equipment. In three years, we have made
almost $2,000!! Its a no-brainer fundraiser for a school or
organization. I think everyone should recycle their cell
phones!Mary Lenahanmblenahan01@msn.com

http://www.fundingfactory.com/ supports school programs, by
collecting cell phones and used ink cartridges.

Another place to dispose of an old cell phone is to give it to
theInternational Myeloma Foundation12650 Riverside DriveSuite
206North Hollywood, CA 91607-3421Proceeds are used to fight
Multiple Myeloma. Thank youGlenda Cook

Verizon takes them back. If you get a new cell phone and don't
leave the old one there, they charge you an extra $10. At least
that gets rid of the old phone.

Thanks for these wonderful suggestions. I feel guilty now that I
have just thrown them out in the past. I am so glad to have your
web site and e-mails now.

I recycle my phones through The Body Shop, where they are
refurbished and given to victims of domestic violence, in order
that they have a phone with them at all times in an
emergency.

I send recycled computer/copier cartridges and old cell phones
to a place that pays a local animal refuge, Rikki's Refuge, for the
items. The money is then used to help old, abandoned, abused
animals that no one wants to have a better life for the rest of
their days. The Refuge is totally funded by donations and runs on a
VERY small budget but saves and or finds homes for hundreds of
animals each year. They have eighteen species and around 1000
animals at any give time. It is a great place and they recycling is
a double winner. Rikki's gets the money and the environments gets
the help.

HAHAHA! The best way to recycle cell phones is to not own one.
It is also the safest way, too. Almost as many automobile accidents
are cause by inattention by the driver on a cell phone as drunk
driving. Right after that comes the mah shaving and the woman
putting on makeup. Thank God that the driver with smoke in his eyes
is declining with few smokers on the road.THe question I have is,
"Who needs cell phones in the first place?". My wife has one and
has never had to use it while on the road. Our kids have one and
use it to call saying, "We are about 10 minutes from your house, is
it ok if we drop in for a while?". I depend on e-mail for my
primary communications, I find that I have a better memory for the
written word than I do for the spoken word.Oh well, I do have a
cabinet full of old computer parts, anyone want to trade?