ReCellular says it collected six million phones last year and saved a million pounds of materials from landfills.
It’s all very well to talk constantly about the new, but what happens when the new becomes old? It’s discarded like yesterday’s newspapers.
But
ReCellular has spent the last 17 years rescuing the cell phones people throw away, and last year was their best ever, they announced at
CES.
They collected six million wireless phones that would otherwise have ended up in landfills, keep a million pounds of materials from becoming waste, and along the way raised over $20 million for charity.
That’s the equivalent over more than 10 million kilos of carbon emissions – enough to power more than 11,000 homes for a year, or give an annual supply of gas to 6,000 vehicles.
The phones come from corporate, charitable and grassroots collections,
"Over the past five years, we have grown exponentially," said Chuck Newman, ReCellular’s founder and CEO, "in large part due to our ongoing efforts to increase consumer awareness for cell-phone recycling, and the innovative collection programs we offer our corporate and charitable partners."
The company is able to recondition about half the collected phones. The others are dismantled and sent to partners to reclaim valuable materials.
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