Pity that old cell phone languishing in a drawer. It's missing out on a fascinating afterlife. Most discarded phones in the U.S. are simply forgotten amid household clutter. A smaller number of handsets make it to a collection center for recycling or a reselling facility. For those phones, their fates can vary from being sold to consumers in developing countries to being melted down for metals like gold and copper. But getting more consumers to think about their old phones the way they look at an empty soft drink can, as a product to be recycled, isn't so easy.
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Putting Old Cell Phones Out to Pasture
Pity that old cell phone languishing in a drawer. It's missing out on a fascinating afterlife. Most discarded phones in the U.S. are simply forgotten amid household clutter. A smaller number of handsets make it to a collection center for recycling or a reselling facility. For those phones, their fates can vary from being sold to consumers in developing countries to being melted down for metals like gold and copper. But getting more consumers to think about their old phones the way they look at an empty soft drink can, as a product to be recycled, isn't so easy.
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Created by danny Created 11 weeks 2 days ago – Made popular 11 weeks 2 days ago
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