Reprocess Your Honest-to-goodness Cellular phone For CharityReprocess Your Honest-to-goodness Cellular phone For Charity
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” Yes, instead of carelessly throwing away your old mobile phone into the bin or leaving it to gather dust in the cupboard do a simple act of charity. Recycle your mobile phone for the sake of charity. There are various charity organizations which can help recycle your old phone for a noble cause.
Cell Phones for Soldiers
Cell Phones for Soldiers is a mobile phone charity organization that provides talk time to overseas troops so that they can call home. The organization collects old phones, which they send to ReCellular so the used phones can be sold or recycled. Each device valued at $5 turns into 2.5 hours of free talk time for the soldiers. By recycling phones to support troops, this popular cell donation program has raised $7 million while preventing over 11.6 million phones from going to landfills in the decade since it started. It has provided more than 220 million minutes of free talk time by sending more than 3 million calling cards to servicemen and women
NASCAR’s Recycle for Victory
NASCAR’s Recycle for Victory cell phone fund aids the Victory Junction Gang Camp. This camp is a NASCAR-themed sleep-away camp for kids suffering from chronic medical conditions or serious illness. Donors have to mail their phone to Recycle for Victory. Recycling your mobile phone to support ailing children is indeed a noble gesture
Flipswap, choose your we charity cause
Flipswap restores and recycles cell phones in a mobile phone charity initiative. You either get paid for it or you can donate the value to a nonprofit of your choice like Cell Phones for Soldiers, a noble organization that supports soldiers
The company also has another program called inStore. This program gives credits to people if they trade in their phone when they purchase a new one. For every phone collected through the inStore service, Flipswap grows a tree.
American Cell Phone for socially responsible reuse of phones
Looking to find local organizations that would refurbish or recycle your old phones? American Cell Phone Drive an organization devoted to the socially responsible reuse of retired cellular telephones and cell phone component helps you find such local organizations.
Just head to AmericanCellPhoneDrive.org, type in your zip code, and you’ll get a list of organizations and drop-off locations. If there is no collection site in your area, you can print off a shipping label to send three or more phones directly to their headquarters. AmericanCellPhoneDrive.org raises funds for charitable organizations which provide scholarships for American children who have lost a parent to enemy or terrorist acts, feed malnourished children in Asia, build low-income housing, donate prepaid calling cards to military personnel, sponsor missionaries in China and support a host of other good works.
Hope Phones for healthcare workers
Hope Phones is a crusade that raises money to outfit healthcare workers in developing regions with new phones and communication equipment through cell phone recycling. You can organize a phone drive in your community or simply send in your own old phone to the organization. They provide the free shipping label.
The campaign supports Medic Mobile, a non-profit organization that works with healthcare workers around the globe. Hope Phones opines that if they can recycle 1% of the world’s discarded phones each year, they can outfit 1 million healthcare workers and improve the lives of 50 million people seeking care.
Nonprofit ‘Recycling for Charities’
This nonprofit features one charity at a time, for which they donate money from recycling old phones. All makes and models are entertained at Recycling for Charities, and the phone condition is not an issue. They make an attempt to refurbish it first, then find recycling centers to ensure the materials won’t go into landfills if the phones cannot be reused.
Fight Against Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Shelter Alliance organizations raise funds by old mobile phone recycling, the profits of which are donated to local violence shelters. Shelter Alliance which has a zero landfill policy will fully recycle your phone, so that no parts end up at the landfill, in case your device cannot be resold.
So turn your old used mobile phone into a mission trip to help those in need. Recycling your old mobile for charity won’t need much effort on your part, but will make a world of a difference to another.
