RecycleForCalifornia.com Off to Fast Start

RecycleForCalifornia.com, an industry-funded statewide cell phone recycling initiative, announced that it now open for business, and has already processed more than 1,000 old cell phones in its first week of operation.

Additionally, a spokesman for RecycleForCalifornia.com said that more than 150 businesses, municipalities and non-profit organizations have signed up to participate in the program since it was launched April 22. The program collects old cell phones from consumers and program participants throughout the state. Phones are then reused or recycled in an environmentally responsible manner.

The RecycleForCalifornia.com website offers a channel through which individuals and organizations may turn in old cell phones to help keep toxins and hazardous chemicals out of the environment. Additionally, some phones have a re-marketable value so RecycleForCalifornia will pay for these handsets. Everyone in the state of California can participate.