{"id":10681,"date":"2013-01-01T17:07:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2013-01-01T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:07:18","slug":"green-action-recycle-your-old-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/10681\/green-action-recycle-your-old-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Action – Recycle your Old Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBe more green!<\/strong>
\nYou can make a difference today!
\nMake many small changes to make one big change!
\nAnd you’ll save a lot!
\nTake action now!
\nHere’s one idea.<\/strong>
\nRecycle your Old Cell Phones<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>We have all heard the call to recycle our old cell phones.\u00a0 We have heard that doing so can save us energy, resources and keep dangerous materials such as\u00a0like lead, mercury, cadmium, brominate flame retardants and arsenic\u00a0out of landfills and ultimately our precious\u00a0 groundwater.
\nThe fact are staggering.\u00a0According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans discard 125 million phones each year, creating 65,000 tons of waste.\u00a0 With the average person in North America changing out their cell phone every 18-24 months, the waste generate from these upgrades have caused cell phone waste to become the fastest growing segment of manufactured garbage in the nation.\u00a0 Sadly,\u00a0only about 10 percent of the cell phones used in the United States are recycled. If Americans recycled all of the 130 million cell phones that are tossed aside annually in the United States, we could save enough energy to power more than 24,000 homes for a year.
\nThere are several ways to recycle our old phones.\u00a0 One is reuse.\u00a0 The market for refurbished cell phones has grow over the last few decades.\u00a0 Many organization reuse this old equipment for help with their charity and safety programs.\u00a0 Other markets reach out to smaller developing countries to provide phones where they would be otherwise unaffordable.
\nCell phones are filled with valuable reusable materials all of which can be recovered and reused to make new products.\u00a0\u00a0For every one million cell phones recycled, we can recover 75 pounds of gold, 772 pounds of silver, 33 pounds of palladium, and 35,274 pounds of copper; cell phones also contain tin, zinc and platinum.\u00a0Many of these metals when reclaimed from old phones can be reused in jewelry making, electronics and auto manufacturing. \u00a0 This reclamation saves valuable resources and rescues these metals from landfills.
\nWhen the rechargeable cell phone batteries are no longer able to be reused they are able to be recycled to make other rechargeable battery products.\u00a0 The overall\u00a0recycling of just one cell phone saves enough energy to power a laptop for 44 hours and recycling one million cell phones could save enough energy to provide electricity to 185 U.S. households for a year.
\nThe next time you upgrade to a new cell phone, think before throwing your old one away or tossing it into a drawer.\u00a0 The area for recycling and reuse of these old phones is growing every year.\u00a0 Answer the call and recycle!
\nFind more resources that will help you take action now here.<\/strong> <\/a>
\nFind environmental organizations to support here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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