In the United States today, over one billion obsolete or used cell phones are kept hidden in drawers and lockers long after the owners forgot about those old devices. Every year, more than one hundred million mobile phones are replaced by users – less than twenty percent of these units are recycled or sent back [...]

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Third Level Crisis Intervention Center in Traverse City, Michigan, is currently conducting a cell phone collection and fund drive to help support Third Level’s crisis services.

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Twitter has been the focus of much attention lately as celebrities, politicians, and marketers have flocked to the site to spread their messages to the world 140 characters at a time. If you’re running a charity or non-profit, can you benefit from having a Twitter account? More importantly, can you use Twitter to gather support [...]

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We’re changing a few things here at Pacebutler blog, but lest you think we’re abandoning our cause of cell phone recycling, we’re not. Hence, the video “Secret Life Of Cell Phones” above.

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A few weeks ago, we announced in this blog that we’re forming a community in Facebook, the premiere social networking site today. Well, last week, we started inviting friends to join us in the group and today, we’re happy to observe that the group is growing quite fast. Hopefully, we will reach 500 members by [...]

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In the past few days, we’ve been discussing cell phone recycling in our posts. Today, let’s look at the different cell phone recycling options available to you.
So, how do you recycle cell phones?

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This is a continuation of our series on cell phone recycling, and today, let’s examine how lucrative cell phone recycling is, how much impact it has on the conservation of limited resources, and why many people consider cell phone recycling a win-win solution for everyone.
Picture this. Seventeen cars piled on top of each other. How heavy [...]

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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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I was looking at the statistics on cell phone recycling the other day, and I was amazed at the percentage of people here in the US who don’t recycle their cell phones. The data is staggering when you consider the actual number of cell phones now rotting in our landfills or gathering dust in our drawers [...]

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