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EPA is pleased to answer America’s call for easy cell phone recycling.

The nation’s leading cell phone makers, service providers, and retailers have teamed up with the EPA to launch a national campaign encouraging Americans to recycle their unwanted cell phones. Partners supporting the Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s An Easy Call Campaign include AT&T Wireless, Best Buy, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Office Depot, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Staples, and T-Mobile.

To kick-off the campaign, EPA has released a series of print public service announcements, which highlight the convenience and environmental and social benefits of recycling a cell phone. EPA also released a odcast that addresses many common questions on cell phone recycling.

Many consumers still do not know where or how they can recycle their unwanted cell phones. Consequently, less than 20 percent of unwanted cell phones are recycled each year. Recycling a cell phone offers an opportunity for everyone to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save energy, and conserve natural resources. If Americans recycled 100 million phones, we could save enough energy to power more than 194,000 U.S. households for a year.

The Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s An Easy Call Campaign is a part of EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling. Plug-In To eCycling is a voluntary artnership between EPA and electronics manufacturers, retailers, and service providers to offer consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics. In 2007, as part of their commitment to the program, retailers and electronics manufacturers voluntarily recycled more than 47 million pounds of electronics, mostly computers and televisions.

For more information about the Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s An Easy Call Campaign, please check out the attached fact sheet or visit our website at: <http://www.epa.gov/cellphones>. For more information about the Plug-In To eCycling program, please visit: http://www.epa.gov/plugin