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A NEW LIFE FOR OLD PHONES

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Recellular employee Myron Woods tests phones to see if they can be resold or re-used. Here, he's got a Nokia 6019, the model reporter Shawn Allee dropped off for recycling. (Photo by Shawn Allee)

It’s pretty clear Americans like their cell phones. On average, we get a new one about every eighteen months. And yet, we hold on to the old ones, too; the government estimates there’re about one hundred million lying around in closets and drawers. Shawn Allee found people eager to take your old phones - if only you’d recycle them:

The EPA's page recycling your cell

A photo essay on phone recycling

Recellular's Website

Producer: Shawn Allee
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Running Time: 3:25

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