GRC Wireless Recycling Contributes $3 Million to Nonprofits

GRC Wireless Recycling, Miramar, Fla., has announced that its cell phone recycling programs have contributed $3 million to nonprofit organizations.

Through its Shelter Alliance and Recycling Alliance programs, GRC promotes “socially responsible programs that offer significant fundraising opportunities,” according to a press release from the company. More than 2,000 organizations in 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico have participated in GRC’s cell phone recycling programs.

“We are very happy to have reached the $3 million milestone,” Henry Garcia, founder and CEO of GRC. “I have always maintained that the measure of our success is evidenced by the amount of money that our programs generate for our nonprofit participants. We are also satisfied in knowing that we are contributing to a worthwhile environmental cause.”

GRC’s “flagship” program, Shelter Alliance, was founded in 2002 to meet the recycling needs of domestic violence shelters that collected phones from their communities. Today, more than 80 percent of the domestic violence shelters in the United States actively use Shelter Alliance as a recycling and fundraising resource, according to GRC.

The company founded Recycling Alliance in 2004 to meet the recycling and fundraising needs of schools, religious and community organizations.

Both programs attract significant support from the private sector, as businesses nationwide recycle their phones with GRC to benefit nonprofit participants, according to the company.

GRC Wireless Recycling was founded in 2001 and offers solutions for cell phone recycling. GRC also offers programs for wireless industry companies. The company’s Wireless Scrap Recycling and Wireless Asset Recovery programs offer wireless retailers, manufacturers and distributors a solution for their stockpiles of non-reusable wireless handsets and boards.

In GRC’s reuse program, collected handsets are marketed to cellular operators in need of inexpensive, outdated technology. Phones without market value are processed through the company’s refining program, which includes shredding, smelting and precious metals reclamation.

GRC is a member of the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, National Recycling Coalition and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and is an EPA Waste Wise Endorser. Through its Shelter Alliance program, the company is a member of several state domestic violence coalitions.