CTIA Calls for Wireless Users to Recycle Phones

Authored by dmw on April 21, 2006 - 3:54pm.

Washington, DC - With Earth Day taking place on Saturday, wireless association CTIA has issued the call for all wireless consumers to recycle their used wireless products. The organization said that many wireless carriers have take-back programs to recover retired wireless products, and all of them will accept wireless products from other networks. Manufacturers also include prepaid mailing envelopes in the box of their new phones, giving consumers a free way to recycle their old phones, with web-based retailers of wireless phones offering similar programs. "Today, every major wireless carrier retail store across the country will collect and recycle all makes and models of wireless phones, accessories and chargers," said Steve Largent, president of the CTIA. "This is an incredibly simple and consumer-friendly process, and we want every wireless consumer in America to take part in it." Since launching in 1999, The Wireless Foundation's Call To Protect program has collected over 2.5 million phones, provided over $3 million in funding for domestic violence agencies and kept over 200 tons of retired electronics out of landfills.
http://www.ctia.org/news_media/press/body.cfm?record_id=1605