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Eco-friendly - cell phone recycling or repair
Let's start with recycling. According to an article from the EPA, recycling mobile phones helps the environment by saving energy and equipment with a value ... from landfills ...* These include materials such as precious and valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper. The phone also contains other metals such as plastic soldiers. All this requires mining equipment with the amount of raw materials and energy needed for extraction and distillation. According to the EPA, if the estimated 100 million phones ready for disposal in the United States saved, we d save enough energy to 18.500 U.S. homes per year. In addition to saving energy and mining, the public should also understand the effect of the material contained in the phone. This includes substances such as arsenic and lead. Put these things in landfills and incinerators we have all the power to hurt our air and water supply. National Geographic has written an article that one element of the phone, especially: coltan. This metal is found in Congo, Central African Mining and the environment have greatly reduced the number of trees. Especially African Gorilla .** So you can do this? First and foremost, do not t throw away your phone. If you have updated the music and want to kujikwamua your existing one, there are several non-profit charity of your phone. One organization is the Eco-Cell. They provide the number of processing centers throughout the country and free shipping if you don t live near the processing center. Work phone or cell phone can be updated donated to people in need (as a patient at the hospital recently released an emergency call 911). Phones that can not be updated recycled their material. Other organizations are for Soldiers Cell that allows you to contribute your phone and serving soldiers, ex cover. Ve their cooperation with AT & T, which then provides paid before calling card for the troops so they can call home from anywhere, anytime. What if you need a new phone because you break already exists? Your cell phone provider will most likely tell you is that the garbage and you need to buy a new phone. There is another option: a phone repair themselves or get professional services, such as Jet City Devices of Chicago and Seattle, do it for you. According to Matt McCormic, owner of Jet City Devices, we frequently talk to customers who bought 2 or 3 new phones before finding our services. This is a shame for two reasons. First, the people who had just disposed of a broken phone. Second, they pay $300 or more for each new phone when the phone can only be prepared for much less. In other words, they throw their phones, and many of their own money. Next time you upgrade your phone or damage the existing phone, do not discard the old phone t. Contact Eco-Cell to find out how to recycle your phone, to a noble such as Cell Phones for Soldiers, or to search the internet for someone to fix your phone. Sources --------- * HTTP: / / www.epa.gov / epawaste / Partnership / plugins / Cellphone / cell-fs.htm ** HTTP: / / news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0120_060120_cellphones.html Link to this article: Related publications Track people for the cell phone number - a number of reverse cell phone look up now Year: 24-07-2010 | author: Neyola Laguirre Here is how to find out who the owner of any phone number free reverse cell phone Lukas Year: 27-04-2012 | author: Grant Dougan Cell phone reverse phone lookup websites Year: 19-01-2004 | author: Ricky Lim Reverse cell phone trace - how to find and identify each caller's phone Year: 11-11-2005 | author: Alec McEachern Using a cell phone number reverse Luke cares to know the owner of a phone Year: 16-08-2004 | author: Hale E. Vabeech People search by cell phone - all should know when trying to trace phone numbers Year: 05-10-2005 | author: Kingsley Abiodun Aje |