Ghana is importing an excess amount of old cell phones and other forms of electronic waste, according to the Ghana Shippers Authority. The Authority has released figures which show that that 31,400 metric tons of electronic waste, including but not limited to old cell phones, was imported into the country in 2010 alone.
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Used Cell Phones in Cinemas
The use of new or old cell phones in movie theaters is becoming a problem, so much so than when the Texas cinema known as the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema kicked out a female patron for talking on a cell phone during a movie, she responded with a phone message of ranting verbal abuse.
Continue readingMore Bans Around Hand Held Cell Phones and Driving
An ordinance banning the use of hand held communications devices when driving inside of city limits was approved in Whitefish, Montana last week.
Continue readingUsed Cell Phone Failure
Users of new or old cell phones associated with Vodafone found themselves without a signal in Calcutta on Sunday. The company claims the failure in service was due to an entirely normal and planned upgrade in their services, but that loss of signal was not notified to customers, who were decidedly unimpressed to find themselves without a cell phone service for more than five consecutive hours.
Continue readingIndiana Cracks Down on Used Cell Phone Towers
A county in Indiana in the United States is drafting tough new rules to clamp down on the construction of used cell phone towers.
Continue readingHikers Should Not Rely on Used Cell Phones
Hikers are being warned not to rely on used cell phones when it comes to planning their jaunts. The warning comes after two more hikers had to be rescued from Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire in the United States after wandering off the trail and realizing that they had lost their way.
Continue readingUsed Cell Phones Disturbing Bees
It is a theory that has been postulated, rejected, reoffered, rejected and resurrected again and again in the media.
Continue readingMove to Ban Used Cell Phone Exports
Moves are underway to try to prevent the exporting of old cell phones, computers, televisions, and other electronic items to developing nations whose recycling programs are primitive at best.
Continue readingCell Phones Changing California Life
According to a California statewide survey, Californians are twice as likely to use their cell phones for internet access as they were three years ago.
Continue readingMore Scientists Affirm Used Cell Phone Cancer Link
Less than a month after the World Health Organization declared that there is a possible link between the use of new and old cell phones with the development of brain cancer, another prestigious panel of scientific experts have also confirmed their evaluation.
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