Month: September 2013

  • Save the Earth! Recycle Cell Phones

    With the lifespan of the average cell phone being about 18-24 months due to cell phone contracts ending and the advances in cell phone technology, you end up with an old cell phone sitting in your drawer gathering dust for years or you maybe (gasp!) you throw it in the garbage. With the success of…

  • Why Recycle Cell Phones? Why not just throw it away?

      Why Recycle cell phones?  Here’s a perfect example as to why you should. You are excited because you just purchased a new cell phone, possibly the new iPhone 8 or the Galaxy S8 Plus.  You can’t wait to get home and play with it! You take pictures and videos, you text friends, you tweet,…

  • Donate Cellphones for Survivors – DoSomething.Org

    Donate Cellphones for Survivors!  SecondWave Recycling is stoked to partnered with DoSomething.org and MTV to collect thousands of old cell phones donated by young people from around the U.S. and repurposed them…keeping them out of landfills and raising money for a critical cause, domestic violence survivor programs.  From Sept. 3, 2013 to Jan. 9, 2014, SecondWave Recycling and DoSomething.org…

  • Recycle Old Cellphones to Help Victims of Domestic Violence

    Here are two sad, seemingly unrelated sets of statistics.  The first concerns domestic violence in America: One out of four American women will be a victim of domestic violence at some point in her life. Over 3 million children in the United States are directly affected by domestic violence. Each day in the United States,…