Month: January 2014
Donate Cell Phones: 3 Weird Cell Phones, Infinite Good Causes
When you donate cell phones, even the weirdest phone can help support a good cause. Go ahead and send us your standard model or something less ordinary. If you’ve got something stranger than these 3 cell phones lying around, we’d like to see it. Shape-Changing MorePhone: This flexible little guy curls up at the corners…
Better Than a Bake Sale: Free Online Fundraising For Churches and Youth Groups
It’s not that bake sales don’t work, we all love a good brownie or blueberry muffin. But for some people, donating baked goods isn’t easy to fit into their schedule. Some people are too busy to spend half a day in the kitchen whipping up something delicious that someone else is going to eat. Similarly,…
What Happens When You Recycle Cell Phones?
It‘s only natural to wonder what’s going to happen when you recycle cell phones, right? That phone sat in your pocket for so long, it’s like an old friend. Do they just dump them all into a big melting vat and turn them into park benches? Or maybe they break them into tiny pieces and…
Donate Cell Phones: Who’s Using My Cell?
It’s a good question, and the short answer is: Someone who needs it. When you donate cell phones, in “gently used” condition they’re cleaned up, tweaked to bring them back to full working order, and then they might be passed along to people in need—like victims of domestic violence who rely on their cell phones…
200 Million Good Reasons to Recycle Cell Phones
If you didn’t know that you can recycle cell phones, you’re not alone. Almost 200 million broken, obsolete and unused phones are going to waste according to a recent University study. An analysis of state laws about e-waste disposal shows they’ve been mostly ineffective. Saphores said that, “California’s Cell Phone Recycling Act has had some positive…
On The Roger Hedgecock Show – Donating phones make a difference.
SecondWave’s Co-Founder, Ryan Rubel, on The Roger Hedgecock Show talking about why e-waste matters and donating phones! [youtube=http://youtu.be/QXydgQvyn0Y&rel=0]
SecondWave’s appearance on CW News!
Co-Founder, Ryan Rubel, spreading the word about SecondWave Recycling on CW News! [youtube=http://youtu.be/Z8aJoDxprN8&rel=0]
Life before touchscreen – Donate your old cell phones to us today!
Technology is getting hard to keep up with these days.You are noticing all your family and friends, young and old, having the latest and greatest ‘cellphone’ on the market. Are you THAT person, the one who still has to flip or slide your phone to get to the keyboard? It’s okay if you are, but…
Recycle Cell Phones Because We’re Not Heavy Metal Fans
Nothing against Metallica because, you know and we know they rock. But when it comes to heavy metal, we want it in our headphones and not in our landfills or our waterways. Cell phones are loaded with metal—copper, aluminum, iron, nickel, tin—and a whole bunch of other things that don’t biodegrade naturally. That includes mercury…