{"id":3490,"date":"2011-03-17T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:08","slug":"alcoa-joins-ban-for-cell-phone-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/alcoa-joins-ban-for-cell-phone-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcoa Joins ban for Cell Phone Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/recycle-earth.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-629\" title=\"recycle-earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/recycle-earth.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-629 lazyload\" title=\"recycle-earth\" 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\/03\/recycle-earth.gif\"><\/a>Alcoa has joined the Basel Action Network (BAN), the environmental company which is dedicated to promoting the recycling of electronics, including old cell phones.&nbsp; Alcoa has already been recognized as a leader in environmental sustainability, being on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last nine years in a row.&nbsp; It has signed up for Basel Action Network\u2019s e-Stewards Enterprise, which helps companies to responsibly recycle their electronic waste, including used cell phones.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumer electronics represents a fast growing market for aluminum, with the aluminum content in laptops alone expected to increase thirty percent by 2013 from a 2010 baseline,\u201d says Kevin Anton, the Chief Sustainability Officer for Alcoa.&nbsp; \u201cBy joining the e-Stewards Enterprise program, Alcoa brings its longstanding environmental stewardship and expertise to help solve the growing e-waste challenge.\u201d &nbsp;By joining the program, Alcoa can help to ensure that the raw materials it uses will be recycled once the products they are a part of have reached the end of their natural lives and help to increase sustainability when it comes to electronic products.<\/p>\n<p>BAN created the program in response to the increasing amount of toxic electronic waste which often ends up being exported to foreign countries and polluting the environment.&nbsp; \u201cAt this pivotal time in what is shaping up to be a worldwide e-waste dumping crisis, Alcoa has laudably joined a growing list of business, academic and governmental leaders taking concrete action to keep e-waste out of landfills worldwide,\u201d says the BAN executive director Jim Puckett, who also created the e-Stewards scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcoa has joined the Basel Action Network (BAN), the environmental company which is dedicated to promoting the recycling of electronics, including old cell phones.  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It has signed up for Basel Action Network\u2019s e-Stewards Enterprise, which helps companies to responsibly recycle their electronic waste, including used cell phones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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>Alcoa Joins ban for 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\/alcoa-joins-ban-for-cell-phone-recycling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alcoa Joins ban for Cell Phone Recycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alcoa has joined the Basel Action Network (BAN), the environmental company which is dedicated to promoting the recycling of electronics, including old cell phones. 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