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Everyone talks about recycling cell phones. How to do it?
Everyone talks about recycling cell phones, but when that phone dies, honestly, it either goes to the kids or sits on top of the bookshelf until it turns into a tiny ball of dust. We expect the cell phones to grow legs, Transformers style, and tell us when it’s right to donate them. Let’s face it –…
Your Old Phone Could Help A Domestic Violence Survivors
SecondWave Recycling in partnership with DoSomething.Org is continuing its efforts to assist domestic violence survivors through the end of the year. Do your part and donate a phone today! Here are a few sad set of statistics: One out of four American women will be a victim of domestic violence at some point in her…
Recycle Cell Phones: The Benefits of Recycling
The average American gets a new cell phone every 18-24 months; this means that there are many people who have old phones lying around that they do not know what to do with since they no longer have a use for them. You may be thinking, “I will just eventually throw them away”. Many people…
It’s Fall and Time to Clean Out the Garage: Donate Cell Phones
A few weeks ago, some of my friends decided to clean out the garage. No one knew what was in that garage! After a few hours, I checked to see how they were doing and half of the garage was empty and on the driveway. I looked around the corner and saw their son laughing…
Erase Your Cell Phone Data Before You Donating
Before you donate cell phones, erase your cell phone data. We’ll do a “data wipe”, but this is something you should really want to do for yourself. If you’re like most people, there are probably photos and stuff from your internet history and love life that you’d like to keep private. People put all kinds…
Donate Cell Phones to Celebrate the Holidays!!
It’s never too soon to start thinking about how you can donate cell phones to celebrate the holidays. After all, advertisers start talking about Thanksgiving when you’ve barely got your kids back in school. Here are some ideas to get you started. Halloween Trick or Treating: You’re already going door to door so why not…
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,…
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