Is cell phone recycling necessary? Why recycle cell phones?
Yesterday, we discussed the sorry state of cell phone recycling in America, and as I mentioned in that post, there’s a large percentage in our population who are unaware that cell phone recycling is possible or that it’s necessary.Â
The iSuppli survey, cited in that article, identified over [...]

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Cell phone recycling grabbed headlines last year when the environmental group Greenpeace released a report detailing the presence of harmful chemicals like brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC, plastics symbol no. 3) in Apple’s iPhone. Critics dismissed the report as a publicity stunt and Apple gave the standard reply of “the levels of these [...]

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