Cell Phone Providers Faulted for Not Recycling

By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman

Apr. 11–The nation’s leading wireless service providers earned failing grades for their cell phone recycling efforts, according to a “Cell Phone Recycling Report Card” issued last week.

In the “Report Card,” Earthworks, a Washington-based conservation group, said that Cingular, Sprint,

T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless recycled less than 2 percent of the 130 million cell phones discarded in the United States each year.

Earthworks gave the four wireless companies, which control a combined 86 percent of the U.S. market, a failing grade for not promoting recycling to their customers and for failing to guarantee that the phones they collect for recycling are not dumped as e-waste in developing countries.

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