Recycle phones and make them easy to dispose of environmental friendly

Most of us have an old cell phone lying in some corner, unused or unusable. We have just moved on towards a more stylish or user-friendly or just a more recently released model. If this is true of at least two individuals in a household, imagine the number of cell-phones just lying there unused. These can be used, to help the environment and also save a lot of resources through basic recycling.
This is one great win-win option. Your old cell might be a favorite, but let's face it, once we move on to a better phone, we will never go back to our old one. So recycling it is a healthy and profitable option, because you get paid for it or earn reward points.
Most popular telecommunication brands, like AT&T, Sprint, LG Electronics, Verizon and T-Mobile have very attractive recycling options. Some like Verizon or AT&T have a download-able and printable, free postage-paid label. All you need to do is print this label, stick it on the box with your old cell phone in it and mail it. You do not have to budge from where you are in order to do this. You have to admit it doesn't get any better than this.
With those who do not possess printers, LG Electronics have made it even easier. You can send them a text message with your mailing address and they send you a package to ship them your old cell phone in. It is all paid for and as easy as that.
Consider these options along with the fact that for every million phones recycled, 75 pounds of gold and 772 pound of silver can be recovered. This amounts to that much less requirement for these metals and therefore proportionate lessening of manufacturing costs.
If you are interested in recycling your old cell phone but you are worried about the data on it, go to the AT&T website and follow their instructions to safely erase all data from your cell phone.
Considering how easy these companies have made it for us, we really have no more excuses to not recycle our old cell phones and do our bit to help the world.