The other day I was reading an article in the magazine "Inc." entitled, "Cool Campus Start-ups" about a Missouri student who calls himself Green Mobile Man and has started an innovative new company, which buys, sells, trades and repairs used mobile phones. You can read the article entitled, A New Life For Old Phones, on Inc.'s website.
It reminded me that it was time again to pay attention to gathering all those discarded cell phones we seem to be unable to do without for a few years and then eventually throw into a drawer somewhere at home. This seems to happen regularly when the next better, more technologically improved, sleeker and 'sweeter' phone/web-email/music player/pda combination comes out, preferably when our phone contract is up.
Many of us remember hearing how toxic these products are when we discard them in the trash and that their elements leach into the earth eventually. I thought I would post this video produced by the Inform Project that reviews the statistics on this and the ways to recycle them here:
This is from Inform's Secret Life Series and the website at http://www.secret-life.org/cellphones/ is very informative with instructions on exactly how to recycle your cell phones and spread the word about doing so.
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