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Cell phones are potentially hazardous waste because they contain lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic. If thrown in the trash and sent to incinerators or landfills, environmental contamination can occur from combustion and leaching into soil and groundwater.

Sadly, less than 2% of old cell phones are being recycled today — we are calling on the public to help raise the profile of this important issue!

The potential human health and environmental impacts of cell phone waste is grim.

Some alarming facts about cell phones you might not know:

* The EPA estimates cell phones will be thrown away at a rate of 130 million a year by 2005 that equals 65,000 tons of waste containing toxic metals!
* There are more than 500 million used cell phones in the U.S. sitting in people’s drawers or in our landfills.

sellcell.com has teamed up with a company to refurbish or recycle your cell phone while following the highest environmental and social standards.

This company recycles everything. The phones, their batteries, chargers, accessories — even the boxes and donation forms. They are very proud of the fact that they do not have a dumpster at their facility!

Most of the phones and accessories received can be refurbished, reset, and reused.

If a phone is broken, its working parts are removed. “New” phones are eventually assembled from the usable parts of different phones.

All unusable materials and batteries are sent to EPA-certified partners who dispose of them in a way that is not harmful to the environment.

Every cell phone can be recycled! All makes and models of mobile phones from all over the world, pagers and PDAs (like Palm Pilots) are accepted. Be sure to include the batteries, chargers and other accessories too!

The age or condition of a phone is not important! Every cell phone can and should be recycled. Just be sure to deactivate your service plan before you send in your phone.

Sell My Mobile from the UK are soon to be coming to the US with SellCell.com. Cell phone recycling is the intelligent way to go.