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Recycling cell phones
The growing popularity of mobile phones presents a big environmental challenge, as people regularly buy new handsets. Americans typically use their phones for about 18 months before replacing them, generating about 65,000 tons of old mobile phones annually. Environmentalists estimate the US could be left with a stockpile of 500 million used handsets by 2005, according to an article in the BBC. But what may seem like a useless old phone could find a new life, thank to companies like Recellular, a US world leader in trading and refurbishing wireless equipment, including cell phones. "The phone is not useful to the people who have them, but they are useful to a charity or somebody else in the world. We just need to put the two together." according to Gary Straus, Chief Financial Officer with Recellular, interviewed by the BBC. |
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