{"id":3394,"date":"2011-01-25T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:16","slug":"recycling-cell-phones-to-save-gorillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/recycling-cell-phones-to-save-gorillas\/","title":{"rendered":"RECYCLING CELL PHONES TO SAVE GORILLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gorilla.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-206\" title=\"gorilla\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gorilla.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-206 lazyload\" title=\"gorilla\" 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\/gorilla.gif\"><\/a>A six year old school student decided to help save the gorillas by launching a cell phone recycling scheme in her elementary school after a visit to Cincinnati Zoo.&nbsp; Alaina Spencer wrote a letter to her principal, Jean Hartman of Waynesville Elementary School, asking her to get the school to set up a cell phone recycling process to help protect gorillas.&nbsp; \u201cCell phones have a mineral that miners have to dig for.&nbsp; The mine is in the gorilla\u2019s habit and the miners have to cut down gorilla\u2019s homes,\u201d the six year old wrote in her letter.&nbsp; Alaina, the daughter of Holli and Blaine Spencer, was writing about mountain gorillas in Eastern Congo, where gorillas habitats are indeed being cut down to facilitate mining for the mineral coltan, which is used in the batteries of cellular phones.&nbsp; \u201cIf they have to move, they might get cold and die,\u201d the six year old says.&nbsp; \u201cThey might not get the plants they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter led to some spontaneous lessons about recycling in her second grade class and the beginning of a cellular phone recycling scheme not just in the school but throughout the entire district.&nbsp; \u201cThe kids have been extremely engaged because they\u2019ve taken ownership of the project,\u201d notes Alaina\u2019s teacher, Amanda Johnson.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun,\u201d she says, adding that the students have been inspired to do research on gorillas and that the scheme gives a \u201creal world application\u201d for some classroom activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six year old school student decided to help save the gorillas by launching a cell phone recycling scheme in her elementary school after a visit to Cincinnati Zoo.  Alaina Spencer wrote a letter to her principal, Jean Hartman of Waynesville Elementary School, asking her to get the school to set up a cell phone recycling process to help protect gorillas.  \u201cCell phones have a mineral that miners have to dig for.  The mine is in the gorilla\u2019s habit and the miners have to cut down gorilla\u2019s homes,\u201d the six year old wrote in her letter.  Alaina, the daughter of Holli and Blaine Spencer, was writing about mountain gorillas in Eastern Congo, where gorillas habitats are indeed being cut down to facilitate mining for the mineral coltan, which is used in the batteries of cellular phones.  \u201cIf they have to move, they might get cold and die,\u201d the six year old says.  \u201cThey might not get the plants they need.\u201d<\/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>RECYCLING CELL PHONES TO SAVE GORILLAS<\/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\/recycling-cell-phones-to-save-gorillas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RECYCLING CELL PHONES TO SAVE GORILLAS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A six year old school student decided to help save the gorillas by launching a cell phone recycling scheme in her elementary school after a visit to Cincinnati Zoo. 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