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Greenville News Cell phone changes could make tons of toxic trash

"The long-awaited arrival of local number portability hits Monday, meaning for the first time, anyone who wants to change their service can keep their phone number -- long cited by consumers as the biggest pain with switching companies. Typically, when people change providers, they upgrade their phones, which relegates old phones to the dusty back of a junk drawer, or worse, the landfill.

There are a lot of phones to recycle. A 2002 study by the environmental group Inform, Inc., showed by 2005, there will be 130 million phones discarded annually."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Cellphone ruling will add to e-waste
"Cellphones, troublesome because they contain lead and the suspected human carcinogens arsenic, cadmium, and beryllium, exemplify the e-waste problem as millions are expected to be discarded, industry experts say.

"Because cellphones are so small, their environmental impacts might appear to be minimal," says Bette Fishbein, a senior fellow at Inform Inc., a national environmental research group based in New York. "But the growth in their use has been so enormous that the environmental and public health impacts of the waste they create are a significant concern.""

The New York Times When a Cellphone's Number Is Up, What Then?
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"James Mosieur buys 50,000 cellphones a month, and now, with wireless number portability beginning today, he expects he will be acquiring even more.

Mr. Mosieur is the chief executive of RMS Communications, a private company in Ocala, Fla., with annual revenue of about $20 million that is made mainly by buying inactive phones from a variety of sources - manufacturers, carriers, wholesalers and individuals - and reselling them to companies that refurbish them."

The Washington Times Trade group promotes cell phone recycling
"The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a leading industry trade group, wants to make it easier for consumers to put their old phones to good and new uses. The group is promoting "Donate a Phone," a program tied to the holiday shopping season that helps people find ways to get rid of old phones in a productive manner.

CTIA has also set up a Web site at recyclewirelessphones.com to give consumers more information about environmentally sound ways to dispose of old wireless devices."

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