Your Obsolete Cell Phones Needn’t Rot at Home; Recycle Them and Get Paid, Too!

If you’re like most people, statistics show you’re hanging onto 3.5 retired cell phones in drawers, boxes of long-forgotten memoirs or at your office. While many of these sit at home and rot, a mountain of these obsolete devices gets chucked into landfills.

That doesn’t have to be. As our planet grows more and more green, so are consumers caring about the impact our cell phones have on the environment.

“With more than 257 million cell phone users (approximately 83 percent of the total population) in the U.S. replacing their cell phones every 18 months and adding another 155 million devices per year, the backlog of cell phones poised to enter landfills is about 1 billion strong,” according to CollectiveGood, a leading cell phone recycler in the U.S., in an April 15, 2008 statement.

CollectiveGood added: “That’s enough cell phones to circle the Earth 2.5 times and more than enough toxic material to poison our air, water and landfills for centuries.”

CollectiveGood now has a recycling program to not only avert environmental damage but restore it, too. GreenPhone.com, GRC Wireless Recycling, CellForCash.com and many more even pay you to recycle your cell phones.