Recent Entries in recycling

ReCellular to Recycle More Mobile Phones with Help of Investor Growth

ReCellular to Recycle More Mobile Phones with Help of Investor Growth

ReCellular, cell-phone recycling firm, announced today that Investor Growth Capital is investing $15 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing. The investment adds a growing clean-tech company to IGC's portfolio, and will enable ReCellular to handsets. ReCellular's revenues have increased …

Consumer Cellular Recycles Phones & Supports Children’s Hospital

Consumer Cellular Recycles Phones & Supports Children’s Hospital

Consumer Cellular has innovative cell phone recycling program that has already kept 10,000 cell phones out of landfills and raised more than $8,000 for Portland, Ore.-based Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation. As reported by CTIA, an estimated 150 million cell phones are retired in …

3% of Mobile Phones Recycled, 44% Never Used, Says Nokia Study

3% of Mobile Phones Recycled, 44% Never Used, Says Nokia Study

Only 3% of people recycle their old mobile phones even though most have old devices lying around at home that they no longer want, according to a survey released by Nokia.   Three out of every four people added that they don't even think about recycling their devices and nearly half were una…

iPhone vs BlackBerry – Loves & Hates from ChangeWave Research

iPhone vs BlackBerry – Loves & Hates from ChangeWave Research

BlackBerry’s and iPhones are the major contenders in the smartphone market and ChangeWave Research is trying to figure out why they are liked and disliked. ChangeWave  looked at the features users love and hate about their iPhones and BlackBerrys as part of their March 2008 survey of 864 …

Wipe Out Data Before Recycling Phones

Wipe Out Data Before Recycling Phones

ReCellular's  cell phone data eraser site reminds everyone to clean off all your data before recycling your phone.  …

Recycle Your Old Cell Phone for HopeLine

Recycle Your Old Cell Phone for HopeLine

This holiday season, many consumers rang in the holidays with new wireless phones,. Rather than throwing old phones into a drawer or into the trash, Verizon Wireless reminds consumers to donate their no-longer-used wireless phones to the company’s HopeLinephone recycling program to support vic…