{"id":3494,"date":"2011-03-18T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:08","slug":"easy-to-recycle-cell-phones-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/easy-to-recycle-cell-phones-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to Recycle Cell Phones in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldphone-3.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-642\" title=\"oldphone-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldphone-3.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-642 lazyload\" title=\"oldphone-3\" 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\/oldphone-3.gif\"><\/a>Those wishing to recycle old cell phones, along with other electrical goods, in California now have a much easier time of it than ever before.&nbsp; Over nine and a half million households in the US state, more than eighty-three percent, are now within ten miles or less of their nearest drop-off point where they can safely dispose of used cell phones and other forms of waste for the purposes of recycling.&nbsp; Even better, around seven million of those, around six out of every ten households, is actually within five miles.&nbsp; There are now no less than two hundred and thirty-five collection points for e-waste throughout California.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe set out to serve almost all California households within a ten mile service area because we knew that if we make it easy for people to drop off their unwanted electronics.&nbsp; We can help eliminate the e-waste that ends up in our landfills or that gets exported for unsafe dismantling and processing,\u201d says Jim Taggart, the president of ECS Refining, the company, which is in charge of the major \u201cecollective initiative\u201d which began in California four months ago in November 2010.&nbsp; \u201cToday\u2019s statistics show that we\u2019re very close to achieving that goal, and demonstrate that we have a successful e-waste recycling model that can be expanded to other states.\u201d ECS Refining has acquired an enviable reputation for its responsible recycling practices and environmental ethics, and has just announced the purchase of a facility in Stockton that will become a new recycling collection site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wishing to recycle old cell phones, along with other electrical goods, in California now have a much easier time of it than ever before.  Over nine and a half million households in the US state, more than eighty-three percent, are now within ten miles or less of their nearest drop-off point where they can safely dispose of used cell phones and other forms of waste for the purposes of recycling.  Even better, around seven million of those, around six out of every ten households, is actually within five miles.  There are now no less than two hundred and thirty-five collection points for e-waste throughout California.<\/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>Easy to Recycle Cell Phones in California<\/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\/easy-to-recycle-cell-phones-in-california\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Easy to Recycle Cell Phones in California\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Those wishing to recycle old cell phones, along with other electrical goods, in California now have a much easier time of it than ever before. 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