Keep America Beautiful, The Wireless Foundation Cleanup

The Wireless Alliance, a cell phone recycling company based in Boulder, Colo., has partnered with Keep America Beautiful to facilitate cell phone recycling during the 2007 Great American Cleanup.

The Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup is a community improvement program with more than 30,000 events in more than 15,000 U.S. communities involving 2.3 million volunteers.

“Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup is a large and diverse program and we wanted to work with an established cell phone recycling company that maintains a zero-waste policy and recycles according to national and local EPA laws,” Gail Cunningham, managing director of Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup, says. “The Wireless Alliance’s knowledge and cell phone recycling reputation made this an easy choice.”

The Wireless Alliance works with manufacturers, wireless carriers, recyclers and nonprofit organizations to collect, reuse, resell and recycle cellular equipment, diverting nearly 300 tons of wireless equipment from landfills since 2002.  

“We’re looking forward to helping Keep America Beautiful build awareness about cell phone recycling during the 2007 Great American Cleanup and throughout the year,” Peter Schindler, president of The Wireless Alliance, says. “Together we will keep our environment free of wireless waste.”