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Recycle My Cell Phone

Don't Trash Your Cell Phone - Recycle It!

E-waste is already the fastest growing solid waste stream on earth. The United Nations Environmental Program estimates up to 50 million tons of electronics, called e-waste (TVs, computers, etc.), get trashed annually. That's 4,000 tons per hour. The bad news: the U.S. properly recycles only 12 percent of its e-waste.

Cell phones contain toxic metals that can pollute the environment and threaten human health. When recycled responsibly, the metals can be put back into circulation, decreasing the need for new metal mining.

Help us make a difference by setting up a responsible cell phone recycling program in your community or workplace. It’s free, easy and helps keeps phones out of the waste stream.

Make Earth Day every day! You can recycle your old cell phone for free from the comfort of your own home today.


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Community Voices

Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

In 1998 a truck from the Kumtor gold mine crashed through a bridge spilling 1.7 tons of sodium cyanide and posioning 2,500 people.

News

Behind Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions

There has always been an element of madness to gold's allure.

Golden Gamble in Grass Valley: A Legacy of Risk

At the Idaho-Maryland Mine, up to four tons of ore would have to be processed to produce one ounce of gold. But the steps taken to scrape together that ounce pose what scientists call two of the mining industry's biggest environmental risks: cyanide contamination and acid mine drainage.

A High Regard for the Earth

David Maisel's Aerial Photos Re-Survey the Boundaries Between Ugly and Beautiful

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EARTHWORKS' 2006 Annual Report

A review of EARTHWORKS' 2006 accomplishments

EARTHWORKS' 2006 Audited Financial Statements

EARTHWORKS Audited Financial Statements and Other Financial Information for years ending December 31, 2006 and 2005.

Predicting Water Quality Problems at Hardrock Mines -- an EARTHWORKS white paper

A Failure of Science, Oversight, and Good Practice

EARTHWORKS' 2005 990 Form