Yes people it IS possible to recycle your old cell phone!
The Environmental Protection Agency has joined forces with top cell phone service providers and retailers, and it’s now embarrassingly easy for you to give your old cell phone the gift of reincarnation.
The program is part of the EPA’s PLUG-IN to eCYCLING campaign, which has recycled more than 142 million pounds of electronics since 2003. You may already have seen some of their recent ads: “Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s An Easy Call.” Thousands of convenient cell phone drop-off spots are set up all over the country; click here to find one near you.
And if you start to wonder if it’s worth the effort, remind yourself that if we recycled the more than 100 million cell phones no longer being used, the energy saved could power 194,000 U.S. homes for a year.
Fast Fact courtesy of Plenty.
