Donate Used Cell Phones to OldPhonesforCharity.com, The Easiest Way to Help a Worth Cause

ReCellular launches affairs that enables consumers to abutment charities by recycling their acclimated corpuscle phones.

Dexter, Michigan -- The barrage of OldPhonesforCharity.com offers consumers the newest, and easiest, way to abutment non-profit groups such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Keep America Beautiful and Cell Phones for Soldiers. Through the new website, consumers can recycle their exceptionable acclimated corpuscle phones and absolute the gain - up to $50 per buzz - to the alignment of their choice.

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We achievement Old Phones for Charity will advice accession acquaintance that old corpuscle phones still accept value The individual act of altruistic your old corpuscle buzz for recycling through Old Phones for Charity offers bifold benefits, attention the ambiance by breach admired abstracts out of landfills and accouterment banking abutment to causes accordant to you, such as award a cure for breast cancer, abating hunger, or acknowledging ecology initiatives. Many humans aimlessly apperceive they shouldn't bandy their old phones away, but don't apperceive what to do with them With Old Phones for Charity, we are alms consumers a acute and acceptable band-aid that allowances the ambiance and added important causes like breast blight research. "We achievement Old Phones for Charity will advice accession acquaintance that old corpuscle phones still accept value," says Chuck Newman, architect and CEO of ReCellular. "The individual act of altruistic your old corpuscle buzz for recycling through Old Phones for Charity offers bifold benefits, attention the ambiance by breach admired abstracts out of landfills and accouterment banking abutment to causes accordant to you, such as award a cure for breast cancer, abating hunger, or acknowledging ecology initiatives."

The Old Phones for Charity website currently has eight non-profit partners, including:
-   Susan G. Komen Foundation
-   March of Dimes
-   The NephCure Foundation
-   Phones for Food
-   Cell Phones for Soldiers
-   Call to Protect
-   International Myeloma Foundation
-   Keep America Beautiful

To accord acclimated corpuscle phones, consumers artlessly download and book a prepaid commitment characterization from Old Phones for Charity. Phones are alien to ReCellular, which reimburses the alms for anniversary buzz collected, based on the archetypal and action of the phone.

ReCellular pioneered the Donate a Phone accommodating recycling affairs with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's (CTIA) Wireless Foundation. ReCellular has back generated about $50 actor for charities, and accustomed abiding programs with ally including Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Sprint and Best Buy.

Approximately bisected of the phones ReCellular collects are reused - advised the ultimate anatomy of recycling. Functional phones are reconditioned and reprogrammed afore accepting awash to wholesalers from added than 40 countries, generally accouterment affordable acceptance to telecommunications in developing countries.

Non-functional acclimated corpuscle phones are dismantled and recycled in accordance with Environmental Protection Agency standards. ReCellular's recycling ally accost admired abstracts such as gold, platinum, nickel and plastic, and alter potentially adverse abstracts from entering landfills.

The abeyant for the Old Phones for Charity affairs is around limitless: an estimated 130 actor corpuscle phones are replaced in the U.S. every year. Currently, alone two percent of these phones are recycled, while the blow are generally kept in clutter drawers afore ultimately accepting discarded.

"Many humans aimlessly apperceive they shouldn't bandy their old phones away, but don't apperceive what to do with them," says Newman. "With Old Phones for Charity, we are alms consumers a acute and acceptable band-aid that allowances the ambiance and added important causes like breast blight research."

About ReCellular Inc., a Global Recycler and Reseller of Used Cell Phones
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated corpuscle phones and accessories. We accommodate solutions for the collection, reclaim and recycling of acclimated claimed electronics that accomplish banking acknowledgment for our partners, above articles for our customers, allotment for alms organizations, and aegis of the environment. Corporate, charitable, chump and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com.

40,000 Cell Phones to Be Replaced on Earth Day; ReCellular Provides Five Reasons to Recycle Cell Phones

Leading Electronics Sustainability Firm ReCellular encourages consumers to "Go Green" and recycle corpuscle phones in account of Earth Day.

Dexter, MI April 20, 2008 - Americans abandon on boilerplate 40,000 corpuscle phones every day - or 150 actor phones a year. For a association so acclimatized to arresting and discarding, ReCelluar is auspicious anybody to "Go Green" and recycle corpuscle phones that they no best use.

We are appreciative to accommodate our ability and ability in wireless recycling to advice accomplish 'Going Green' for Earth Day a reality This is a abundant day to body acquaintance for the baby things all of us can do to accomplish a difference. Reusing or recycling corpuscle phones has a cogent account to ecology efforts. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, bearing 150 actor corpuscle phones would absorb abundant activity to ability 285,000 homes for a year, and aftermath added than 258 actor kilograms of carbon emissions. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 150 actor phones contains $94 actor of adored metals - not factoring the amount of accretion - including gold, platinum, silver, aegis and copper.

"We are appreciative to accommodate our ability and ability in wireless recycling to advice accomplish 'Going Green' for Earth Day a reality," says Chuck Newman, architect and CEO of ReCellular. "This is a abundant day to body acquaintance for the baby things all of us can do to accomplish a difference."

In account of one of the better ecology movements of the year, ReCellular has aggregate 5 affidavit to recycle corpuscle phones that are awkward about in your board drawer:

1. They acceptable still work. More than bisected of the phones ReCellular receives are still functional, and can be refurbished and reused - generally in developing countries. The United Nations ranks acceptance to communications as the second-most important contributor to above of life, afterwards health-care.

2. They accommodate admired materials. Recycling corpuscle buzz ambit boards yields added gold per ton than the boilerplate ton of ore from gold abundance operations, as able-bodied as added adored metals such as silver, platinum and palladium.

3. They can be environmentally damaging. Like all rechargeable batteries, corpuscle phones accommodate abundant metals and chemicals that can be baneful in landfills, and should consistently be recycled.

4. They are of value. ReCellular offers businesses up to $150 per phone, and their accommodating donate-a-phone programs aloft added than $8 actor per year for non-profit organizations.

5. They're confined no purpose in the drawer. Really, what are you befitting those corpuscle phones for? Send them in.

For added advice on how to recycle corpuscle phones, or to download a prepaid shipment characterization to accord your phone, go to ReCellular.com.

About ReCellular Inc.:
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the arch electronics sustainability firm. We accommodate solutions for the collection, reclaim and recycling of acclimated claimed electronics that accomplish banking acknowledgment for our partners, above articles for our customers, allotment for alms organizations, and aegis of the environment. Corporate, charitable, chump and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com.