Since publishing this article, ReCellular has gone out of business. Cells for Cheap is an alternate resources and they recycle as well.
Two brothers founded ReCellular, Inc., a supersonic service that will make sure mobile phones are refurbished, reused and responsibly recycled.
Due to the short shelf-life of the tech gear we so love, hundreds of millions of used cell phones are taken out of service each year. Two brothers founded ReCellular, Inc. to refurbish, reuse and responsibly recycle discarded cell phones. The aim is to keep valuable materials out of landfills, including an estimated $630,000 of precious metals from circuit boards, and enough copper from phone chargers to recover the Statue of Liberty, twice!
Supersonic:
You can sell your old iphone or blackberry here
Buy a refurbished model for a bargain (at the store appropriately called Mobile Karma
Donate your phone by using the locator to find one of 40,000 drop off locations. The site even has a handy little Data Eraser service to determine how to erase all your confidential information!
Tres eco, ReCellular Inc.!
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