Where Do Old Phones Go?

One can donate it, but recycling cell phones is getting to be a big business

http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/

http://www.epa.gov/osw/partnerships/plugin/cellphone/index.htm

http://www.cellforcash.com/

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I kept mine after leaving T-Mobile and it works just fine for 911 and I tested it. So I keep it in my truck in case of needing to call 911 free!!!

Don't forget to charge it occasionally...

only marginally better than the ones they're replacing

That is the key sentence. If I want a phone, I want a phone and not a camera or radio or mp3-player. I have an 11-year-old Nokia, it's durable, robust and works properly. It's no use to buy an other one with several unusable bells and whistles but shorter battery life and significantly higher price.

11 years, I'm surprised My first phone was a qualcomm, I had it for 6 years, and then my provider (primeco, now verizon) sent a letter stating it was doing an upgrade and that my phone would no longer work. I do have a new phone every 2 years contract. And they do have basic phones, I do like the GPS on them and have used the camera on jobsites.

Lowes also take old cell phones and batteries for recycling. At least the ones in my area do. Most cell phone companies will take them for recycling too.

I will take an old but still mostly functional engineer who talks too much over a phone that does everything but stay connected to whom ever I was talking too!

The old engineer can teach me many things for free. A new cell phone can only teach me where I cant get service at for $49.99 a month.

as opposed to young engineers who can only offer a post like yours

If you can find the words "in the good old days" or "bla bla bla" in any of the posts on CR4 and stemming from an old fart you have a lot of work to do. I can't remember ever seeing them typed but now, by you. In the good old days people like you started texting and made irrelevance a virtue.

Ky, just stop it, you haven't even got a mobile Phone!!

And then they Di ode.

I understand the thinking of the (very) young people having a hip phone is fun, however once you enter into adulthood the motivational impulses should have changed, especially as the features that are added are very marginal.

By the time you reach adulthood you should have realized that your old phone will end up in the landfill. Plastics, heavy metals, etc will eventually end up back into our food chain as it pollutes our waters, our seas, the fish we eat and so on. Especially people with children must realize that what ever we do now must be cleaned up by our children and they will ask themselves why we, living in 2010, did not conserve more.

I just read a article about electricity use in the united states compared to europe. We use 3 times more electricity. 11.000 KWh in the US compared to 3.500 KWh in europe. Why is that, why don't we care more about that? And even if you don't care about any of that green thinking, think about your wallet. I average about 70 dollars per month, spring and autumn 30 to 40 and 80 to 90 in deep summer or deep winter. I have no oil or gas so its the final bill. I must add that in the winter time I supplement with corn heating. So the energy picture is a bit different but still, my neighbours do 300 to 400 dollar per month. You know that difference in dollars is now available to me to do fun stuff with. That's 1500 dollars towards a good vacation. The same is thru for cars. I got myself a brand new Camry 15 years ago, so after about 5 years a slowly started to feel the market. No changes found at all, still the same millage, still the same technology, still the same cupholders, only a different smell. Which is btw not good for you. So now 15 years into this car I still get the exact same millage I still sit as comfortable as 15 years ago and I put a lot of money towards more vacations. Did you know that we are driving the same technology as the first (gas or diesel) cars. THAT'S 150 YEARS OLD TECHNOLOGY. Folks 40 years ago we put a man on the moon. Now in 2010 we still buy 150 years old technology, why do we accept this. Shame on the engineers that design cars now.

Anyway guys and dolls you get the picture, we are making a mess of our own home and we don't get it.

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