yosemite.epa.gov - 4/6/2009
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EPA Challenges Americans by Launching National Cell Phone Recycling Week: April 6-12 100 million recycled cell phones save enough energy to power 18,500 homes Release date: 04/02/2009 Contact Information: Latisha Petteway, (202) 564-4355 / petteway.latisha@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – April 2, ...
epa.gov - 4/6/2009
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Plug-in To eCycling logo Recycle Your Cell Phone.
It's an Easy Call. National Cell Phone Recycling Week...
Plug-In To eCycling's National Cell Phone Recycling Week 2009 is a joint effort with leading cell phone manufacturers, service providers and ...
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epa.gov - 4/2/2009
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epa.gov —
Plug-in To eCycling logo Recycle Your Cell Phone.
It's an Easy Call. National Cell Phone Recycling Week...
Plug-In To eCycling's National Cell Phone Recycling Week 2009 is a joint effort with leading cell phone manufacturers, service providers and ...
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Recycle Your Cell Phone. It's an Easy Call. | Plug-In To ...
environmentalleader.com - 4/2/2009
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Supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Plug-In
To eCycling National Cell Phone Recycling Week“, April 6-12,...
2009, Sprint has set a goal to collect 250,000 phones in April, a 25 percent increase over last ...
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Sprint Wants to Recycle 250,000 Cell Phones in April
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National Recycling Week and kajeet
Organicmania —
... Today marks the start of National Cell Phone Recycling Week , an EPA initiative to increase the rate of cell phone recycling, which stood at an abysmal 10% level when last measured in ’07. Did you know that it is so easy to recycle that you can download a free shipping label and mail in your old phones? Check out ...
Recycle 100 Million Cell Phones, Power Almost 20,000 Homes
Red, Green, and Blue —
The Environmental Protection Agency has launched the National Cell Phone Recycling Week as part of the month-long Earth Day festivities. In 2007, the EPA estimates that only 10 percent of all unused cell phones were recycled, and if all 100 million unwanted phones were recycled now it would save enough energy to power 18,500 homes for one full year.
The week-long recycling event, running from April 6 through April 12, is the result of a collaboration between the EPA’s Plug-In to eCycling program and a number of phone ...
Waste-Free Wednesday: Recycled Cell Phones
The Green Parent —
... Apparently, it’s National Cell Phone Recycling Week (who knew?) which is a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to improve America’s pathetic cell phone recycling rates (which currently hover around 10%.) Like most electronics, cell phones are made from plastics and metals that wreak havoc on the environment when they find their way in to landfills. ...
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