ReCellular your old cell phones
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What happens to most mobile devices when people no longer use them? That was the question Nokia asked more than 6, 500 people in 13 countries around the world. The surprising results showed that most are stored away at home because very few of us don’t know that that they can be recycled or how to do this.
The survey conducted in Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, Nigeria, India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, found that only 3% of people recycle their mobile phones. Very few are being thrown away (4%) instead the majority (44%) are simply kept at home and never used.
So, as you are reading this, there is a very good chance that you still have that old phone of yours lying in a drawer somewhere. So what can can you do with it? ReCellular has an answer for you. ReCellular is a cell-phone recycling firm that just got a $15 million Series A funding from Investor Growth Capital, a clean-tech investment firm.
ReCellular has experienced explosive growth by capitalizing on two convergent trends: consumers’ growing awareness of environmental issues, and the increasing sales of new wireless handsets. As a result, ReCellular’s revenues have increased an average of 25 percent for the past eight years.
In 2008, the company is on track to process more than 6 million phones!
So, Go on and take out your mobile phones and send them out to ReCellular and help the environment. If you own a business or are interested in charitable fundraising, ReCellular has a program for you as well. In fact business/companies can sell old phones to ReCellular in exchange for cash!
