What makes the Recycle My Cell Phone campaign different than other cell phone collections?
This campaign is a grassroots effort to build awareness about recycling and the environmental impacts of cell phone waste. Through our various campaigns, EARTHWORKS seeks to educate consumers about the impacts of their purchases, beginning with the extraction of raw materials through the end of product life. By inviting others to participate and benefit from the campaign we hope to achieve a critical mass and significantly increase the rate of cell phone recycling — to date, the industry and other collection campaigns combined have recycled less than 2% of retired cell phones. We can and should do better! The Recycle My Cell Phone campaign accepts all makes and models of phones, beepers, PDA’s (like palm pilots), chargers and accessories. There are other programs and companies who claim to be recycling to protect the environment, but only want specific makes and models of phones, and have no credentials on how they dispose of the toxic materials they process. All cell phones collected
