Cell Phone Providers Faulted for Not Recycling
Posted on: Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 12:00 CDT
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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