With the advent of the mobile phone, most of us cannot remember a time when we did not have one.
The mobile phone is now in the hands of every adult, teen, and young child giving us all exposure to an outside world that we never had before.
There was time when we connected with our family at home, at dinner time and with our friends after dinner.
Today, we can connect with family and friends at any time of the day or night.
There do not seem to be any boundaries.
But what do we do with that mobile when we are through with it because it gave us the ghost or we just wanted to replace it for an upgrade? We usually just throw it in a drawer and there it stays until one day we decide to clean the drawer out and the mobile phone gets tossed.
No one ever thinks of small items such as the mobile phone as being a threat to the environment, but it is.
That small phone is loaded with toxics such as cadmium, lead, beryllium and flame retardants and should be properly recycled.
One way to recycle that old phone is to return it when you are upgrading.
When you are ready to upgrade the old handset, then take it with you and turn it in when you receive the new one.
The company that you return it to will repair it or upgrade it and it will work as well as it did when it was new.
If that phone still works well and you just want to upgrade it than donate the old phone to a charitable organization.
A charitable organization can use it to help someone that would need a phone such as a low income senior or a disabled person or to resell in their resale shop.
Some shopping malls have recycle bins into which you can place your old mobile phone for recycling.
But perhaps the best mobile phone recycling program is the one started by Chevrolet which brings mobile phones to soldiers.
They have spent a million dollars for this campaign to recycle phones for use by the United States troops overseas.
They will provide prepaid cards and phones to the troops giving them the opportunity to call home.
When you are ready to upgrade your phone, or your phone is destined for the junk drawer, remember that there is someone somewhere who can use that phone.
That someone may be a person with a disability or weak mobility whose life that mobile phone may save; or a soldier that will have the opportunity to talk to his loved ones at home.
Recycling is not just a way to save the environment; it is also a way to help your fellow human.
So, let your phone do its part by joining those phones that have gone before it into good and needy hands.
The mobile phone is now in the hands of every adult, teen, and young child giving us all exposure to an outside world that we never had before.
There was time when we connected with our family at home, at dinner time and with our friends after dinner.
Today, we can connect with family and friends at any time of the day or night.
There do not seem to be any boundaries.
But what do we do with that mobile when we are through with it because it gave us the ghost or we just wanted to replace it for an upgrade? We usually just throw it in a drawer and there it stays until one day we decide to clean the drawer out and the mobile phone gets tossed.
No one ever thinks of small items such as the mobile phone as being a threat to the environment, but it is.
That small phone is loaded with toxics such as cadmium, lead, beryllium and flame retardants and should be properly recycled.
One way to recycle that old phone is to return it when you are upgrading.
When you are ready to upgrade the old handset, then take it with you and turn it in when you receive the new one.
The company that you return it to will repair it or upgrade it and it will work as well as it did when it was new.
If that phone still works well and you just want to upgrade it than donate the old phone to a charitable organization.
A charitable organization can use it to help someone that would need a phone such as a low income senior or a disabled person or to resell in their resale shop.
Some shopping malls have recycle bins into which you can place your old mobile phone for recycling.
But perhaps the best mobile phone recycling program is the one started by Chevrolet which brings mobile phones to soldiers.
They have spent a million dollars for this campaign to recycle phones for use by the United States troops overseas.
They will provide prepaid cards and phones to the troops giving them the opportunity to call home.
When you are ready to upgrade your phone, or your phone is destined for the junk drawer, remember that there is someone somewhere who can use that phone.
That someone may be a person with a disability or weak mobility whose life that mobile phone may save; or a soldier that will have the opportunity to talk to his loved ones at home.
Recycling is not just a way to save the environment; it is also a way to help your fellow human.
So, let your phone do its part by joining those phones that have gone before it into good and needy hands.
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