This is a random post, but I thought I'd share anyway.
I ordered a hands-free headset for my cell phone.* The package came with a mail-in envelope for used cell phones as part of Motorola's cell phone recycling program. The program pays for postage, accepts all brands and models, and you can even send in chargers and other accessories. It refurbishes and resells the phones, or recycles the ones it can't refurbish. Proceeds go to participating cash-starved schools, and you keep the heavy metals contained in the phones and batteries out of our landfills.**
I've kept my old phones, and over the past six years I have accumulated four, which isn't bad if you consider I have two Brazilian and two U.S. I'm sending in three.***
*Toolish, I know, but it is hard to talk on the phone while cooking or gardening. This way I can multi-task. I don't plan to be seen in public wearing the borg-like earpiece.
**I gather that Motorola sells/donates the phones to starving people in developing countries, thus flooding their market with cheap, old technology. The no longer useable phones in the developing countries if not given to someone else, are then thrown on the side of the road, thus contaminating their water supply and landfills, if any, with the heavy metals from the phones. But at least we've exported our pollution. NIMBY!
***One Brazilian is being kept for my eventual return, whenever that may be. 2008?
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Hi. You can also donate your used cell phones to Verizon's "Hopeline" by dropping off your phone at any Verizon store. The phones are refurbished and reprogrammed or they recycle them and give the proceeds to agencies working with domestic violence. Some phones are given to victims of domestic violence so they can have a cell phone with 911 and one non-emergency number in case they are in a dangerous situation.
It is a good cause and might save a person's life. http://aboutus.vzw.com/communityservice/hopeLine.html
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