Consumer Waste: A growing problem
Resource management is an abstract concept for many. And since consumer waste are crazily high over the past few years we must implement new techniques… Read More »Consumer Waste: A growing problem
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Where to Donate a Smartphone to a Military Charity
It has been said that more than 1.5 billion smartphones are sold each year, and in America people tend to get a new phone every… Read More »Where to Donate a Smartphone to a Military Charity
How To Recycle Cells Phones in Bulk
It is estimated that a person buys a new cell phone every 15 to 18 months. As a result, cell phones create about 60,000 tons… Read More »How To Recycle Cells Phones in Bulk
The Top Reasons to Recycle Your Old Phones
If you are like many people, then when the newest phone comes out you get excited and go buy it right away. However, phones don’t… Read More »The Top Reasons to Recycle Your Old Phones
Recycling Your Cell Phone Tips
So you’re thinking about recycling your mobile phone and want a few tips as to what’s the best way to do it? This is what… Read More »Recycling Your Cell Phone Tips
8 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Phones
8 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Phones When you upgrade your old cellphone, you then must decide what to do with the old one. You’ve… Read More »8 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Phones
How To Donate Your Cell Phone to Charity
Your old cell phone does not belong in landfill. Unfortunately, a lot of people still either throw away their old phones or drop them in a recycling box without knowing where they’re going. Additionally, a lot of electronics recycling takes place overseas with workers who are often exposed to toxic chemicals and the like, rather than being done properly and locally. This article will help explain how to donate your cell phone to charity. Read More »How To Donate Your Cell Phone to Charity
We’ll be at SEA and PDX WeWork to repair your phone!
We held a series of pop up repair shop last month at the three WeWork Seattle locations, and we’re happy to announce that it was poppin’! We had customers stopping by our pop up, requesting for a repair, asking questions, and chatting away.
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Earth Week is here!
Happy Earth Week! This week is an exciting week for us at SecondWave Recycling. We’ve got our month-long Earth Day collection campaign going on at the Seattle, Portland and the Bay Area WeWork locations; in addition we are hosting a pop-up cell phone repair shop at all three Seattle WeWork locations this week, as well as hosting a Lunch & Learn with 5Gyres to educate and promote awareness about the plastic pollution in the ocean.
Portland and San Francisco WeWork join Earth Day campaign!
It’s April and the countdown to Earth Day has begun! We’ve mentioned in the last post that SecondWave Recycling has joined forces with WeWork Seattle to collet old phone donations to help our friends at 5Gyres. We’re happy to announce that additional WeWork locations including Portland and San Francisco have joined our Earth Day campaign!
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