{"id":3393,"date":"2011-01-24T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:16","slug":"elementary-school-gets-into-cell-phone-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/elementary-school-gets-into-cell-phone-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary School Gets Into Cell Phone Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/recycle-logo.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-199\" title=\"recycle-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/recycle-logo.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-199 lazyload\" title=\"recycle-logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/recycle-logo.gif\"><\/a>Mercer Elementary School is looking a little green as a result of its new cell phone recycling scheme, being headed by a bunch of third graders.&nbsp; Just before the Christmas holidays, the students of teacher Mary Lou Van Eman and Dana Olsen, the school\u2019s reading recovery teacher, began to draw up their plans for a new cell phone recycling program.&nbsp; The third grade class has managed to get the whole of Mercer Elementary School involved with the project and as of Friday, over two hundred used cell phones have already been handed in.&nbsp; Third graders Dylan Nugent and Claire Steinbrunner say that newer used cell phones will be refurbished, given new chips and sent to island countries such as Haiti, while those old cell phones that are somewhat beyond refurbishing will be smelted and then recycled in other ways.&nbsp; The program, the main emphasis of which is on \u201cGoing Green\u201d will carry on until the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to help our environment,\u201d third grade student Grace Reidy says.&nbsp; \u201cA lot of people like a clean area.&nbsp; It\u2019s going to make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students, who went from class to class at Mercer Elementary School to announce the program, as well as declaring it in the afternoons via the school\u2019s public address system, have also offered an incentive to students to participate, with Principal Scott Gates to offer a Popsicle treat to the student who donates the most used cell phones to the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercer Elementary School is looking a little green as a result of its new cell phone recycling scheme, being headed by a bunch of third graders.  Just before the Christmas holidays, the students of teacher Mary Lou Van Eman and Dana Olsen, the school\u2019s reading recovery teacher, began to draw up their plans for a new cell phone recycling program.  The third grade class has managed to get the whole of Mercer Elementary School involved with the project and as of Friday, over two hundred used cell phones have already been handed in.  Third graders Dylan Nugent and Claire Steinbrunner say that newer used cell phones will be refurbished, given new chips and sent to island countries such as Haiti, while those old cell phones that are somewhat beyond refurbishing will be smelted and then recycled in other ways.  The program, the main emphasis of which is on \u201cGoing Green\u201d will carry on until the end of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elementary School Gets Into Cell Phone Recycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/elementary-school-gets-into-cell-phone-recycling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elementary School Gets Into Cell Phone Recycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mercer Elementary School is looking a little green as a result of its new cell phone recycling scheme, being headed by a bunch of third graders. 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