Not using your old cell phone(s) anymore? Donate your phone to a charity or sell it to a third-party recycler. You can often take a tax deduction for the phone’s value, or get cash from a recycler. Charities to check out – your local women’s shelter or domestic abuse/crime victim’s hotline, Cellphones for Soldiers, or through your wireless retailer (ask for an envelope).

Less than 1 percent of cell phones are currently recycled, and there are 500 million used cell phones not being used – in the USA alone. Your old phone can help someone else. Why not make that happen?

This entry was posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pm and is filed under Green living. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.