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Phubbing? Americans do love their smartphones.
Phubbing is snubbing someone by paying attention to your phone instead of them in a social setting. Apparently a lot of people are tired of phone snubbing. An awareness campaign begging us all to stop it, started by a guy in Australia, has gone viral. The “Stop Phubbing” campaign, started by 23-year-old graduate student Alex…
The Unexpected Benefits of New Technology
Technology moves incredibly fast! If you are like many people, you probably have a drawer filled with gadgets that you bought with glee just a few years ago, and which quickly became obsolete. Remember cassette tapes and VHS? They’re nearly extinct now. Remember when CDs were all the rage? Now it is becoming increasing difficult…
Oops…I just dropped my cell phone in water!
So you just donated your old cell phone and now you have a shiny new phone! It’s a big day, like getting a new car. You don’t want to scratch, ding or heaven forbid, drop it! On top of that, drop it in water…We’ve all experienced this first hand or know of someone who gave their…
Recycle or Repurpose? Use a cassette tape holder for what?!
At SecondWave Recycling we focus on cell phones, either recycling or reselling. Above and beyond cell phones, we believe in reduce, reuse and recycle for everything. I came across this and thought this was a ingenious way of repurposing an old cassette tape holder. Now I just need to find one…
No Shocker: Typical American Household Full of Old Cellphones
DECEMBER 2, 2012 AT 2:32 PM PT – AllThingsD.com A new study by mobile security vendor Lookout finds that 62 percent of American households have at least one old cellphone lying about. Some 10 percent of households have four or more old devices stuffed into a drawer somewhere. If you put them all together, Lookout…
Dr. Bronner’s collecting phones for Surfrider Foundation!
SecondWave Recycling is pleased to announce that Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps is running a company wide cell phone recycling campaign! All proceeds from donated phones will go to support Surfrider San Diego. Good work and we look forward to a successful fundraiser!
Boston Here We Come! The 5 Gyres Plastic Solutions Outreach Tour.
Follow our friends at 5 Gyres while they bike 1400 miles from Boston to Charleston to spread the word about ocean plastics. If you can make one of their presentations – do so. It’s just another way you can help make the world a better place. Check out their blog – http://5gyres.org/whats_happening_now/blog Get involved and donate…
USO and SecondWave at Miramar Air Show
SecondWave is pleased to announce a partnership with USO San Diego. To kick off this new relationship we will be hosting a tent at the Miramar Air Show on October 12-14. Attendees can pick-up pre-paid mailers at the USO tent and donate used cell phones to benefit San DIego’s military community. Proceeds will support: Active…
Local companies get involved to help support Surfrider San Diego.
Reef and Spy Optic are participating in a company wide cell phone recycling drive to raise funds for the Surfrider San Diego Chapter. At Reef, Jackie Hall, who is spearheading the drive, was quoted saying, “The crew here at Reef is stoked to support the chapter by collecting old cell phones to be recycled. It’s a simple…
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