Verizon Cell phones introduce recycling refurbish scheme
The poor old cell phone has a fickle faith what do you do throw it away or go green and save green simply by throwing your cell phones in the bucket.
“Its extremely easy to recycle them. Very easy to keep them out of the landfill. Very easy to clear the clutter out of your house,” explains Karen Schulz of Verizon Wireless.
That’s what Verizon is hoping for with its cell phone recycling program thats easy, clean and green. .
“The EPA estimates that only 10 percent of cell phones used are recycled and that adds a lot to our landfills.”
Over 150 million cell phones are taken that out of service each year as people upgrade to the latestversion of handset.
“If we could recycle just 66 percent of those phones, we could power houses about 194,000 houses a year on the energy we save.”
Even if you’re not a customer of Verizon Wireless and you have a phone from a different carrier, you can still come into any store and drop it in the bucket so you can go green and save green.
“We really do want to be responsible to our environment and reusing those phones for the good purpose of helping victims of domestic violence.”
Verizon’s Hope Line recycling program took in over a million phones last year alone and continues to help victims of domestic violence with these refurbished phones.
Power cords, batteries and obviously your old cell phones…all helping to go green and save green.
If you can’t make it to a Verizon store to drop off your old phone, click here for a site where you can print out a shipping label and just drop it in the mail.