Archive for April, 2010

Keep the planet clean… and your pocket book full!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

If you are anything like me you probably switch out your mobile phone about once a year. I’ll be the first to admit that this process can get quite costly very quickly. And there is also a lot of concern about its impact on the environment. Even though all modern phones are RoHS compliant there is generally still a little heavy metals such as lead used to manufacture the phones, and just look at the plastic case, that is not going away any time soon! I have been recycling my phone batteries for years because I know the lithium introduced into the ecosystem is not good! But there’s not a lot of places I’ve seen where you can recycle you phone.
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