Recycle Your Old Phone
I’d like to introduce Carolyn and The Greening Place which is all about Sustainability, Ease of Reuse, Fundraising, recycling and most importantly Zero Landfill increase! Here’s what Carolyn has to say about The Greening Place’s cause…
The Greening Place offers free inkjet cartridge and cell phone recycling to groups of any size. We have a large list of cartridges and cell phones that we pay you for, but we take all of them!
After ten years of collection programs we still only recycle around 20% of these two small electronics, which is sad because there are over 500 million inkjets going into the trash and 130 million cell phones that are either not recycled or stored and we repeat this every year. They are extremely easy to collect and recycle and we pay you! We offer collection materials and pay shipping.
No one knows why more businesses and other organizations don’t collect and recycle these in the work place where people go every day. Research does show that these types of programs would be the single most effective change that could finally increase the recycling rate and get more turned in for Reuse.
We’re different because we collect them to REUSE them. About 60%-70% of what you turn in will be reused. The remanufactured products that your old electronics become are in high demand in this economy because they are usually up to 50% less than a new cartridge or cell phone.
We know that sometimes small things like this can seem like small potatoes in the big green movement but it’s very important to recycle these because we keep using them in the hundreds of millions every year. They are a big e-waste problem. The other big reason is such a high percentage of them can be reused and reusing more of what we use is what sustainability is all about.
Please consider getting a collection going at your place of business, school, church or group and let’s get more of these turned in! It’s easy, it’s free and you’ll make money in the process.
