ReCellular Receives 2008 Best of Dexter Award

ReCellular, Inc., Dexter, Mich., has been selected for the 2008 Best of Dexter Award in the Recycling Centers category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

The USLBA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that it believes have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community, the association says.

ReCellular pioneered the wireless recycling industry, as the first enterprise dedicated to the emerging cell phone market, the company says. Today, ReCellular collects 4 million phones per year through corporate, charitable and grassroots collections programs.

Approximately half of the phones ReCellular collects will be reused. Functional phones are reconditioned and reprogrammed before being sold to wholesalers from more than 40 countries.

Phones and accessories that cannot be resold are dismantled and sent to cell phone recycling partners for reclamation. ReCellular’s Zero Waste Policy recycles every item received. In addition to circuit boards, phone chargers, and plastic accessories, the ISO 140001 Certified recycling program reclaims nickel, iron, cadmium and lead from battery packs; paper and cardboard shipping materials; and even leather and vinyl materials from phone carrying cases.

The USLBA gathered and analyzed various sources of information to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity, the association says. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.