{"id":3524,"date":"2011-04-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:06","slug":"recycle-cell-phones-get-a-free-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/recycle-cell-phones-get-a-free-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle Cell Phones \u2013 Get a Free Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/green-recycle.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-757\" title=\"green-recycle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/green-recycle.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-757 lazyload\" title=\"green-recycle\" 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\/04\/green-recycle.gif\"><\/a>Clark Gardens Botanical Park in Texas in the United States recently came up with a novel way to try to entice people into cell phone recycling.&nbsp; Every time someone donates an old cellular phone, they will be given a tree sapling.&nbsp; The idea, which was used for a limited time only at a festival, which was held over the weekend, saw forty-eight old cell phones being donated for recycling, with tree saplings of such species as Bur Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Green Ash and Shumard Oak (all Texas natives) given to those that participated.&nbsp; There are still a few tree saplings left and the program will continue for a brief period until they are all gone.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClark Gardens is dedicated to educating the public in ways to improve our environment,\u201d says Clark Gardens Botanical Park director Carol Clark Montgomery.&nbsp; \u201cOnce we became aware of the seriousness of the incorrect disposal of cell phones, we wanted to not only offer a simple way to dispose of cell phones, but to also offer an incentive to correctly dispose of them.\u201d Montgomery says that Clark Gardens Botanical Park has formed a partnership with the recycling program known as Phoneraiser.com to help dispose of all the old cell phones donated.&nbsp; \u201cThe gardens will receive a cash donation from Phoneraiser.com for each phone recycled,\u201d she says.&nbsp; \u201cThe funds raised will be put back into the gardens\u2019 educational programs.&nbsp; Clark Gardens is a 501c3 offering free educational programs to area wide school aged children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Gardens Botanical Park in Texas in the United States recently came up with a novel way to try to entice people into cell phone recycling.  Every time someone donates an old cellular phone, they will be given a tree sapling.  The idea, which was used for a limited time only at a festival, which was held over the weekend, saw forty-eight old cell phones being donated for recycling, with tree saplings of such species as Bur Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Green Ash and Shumard Oak (all Texas natives) given to those that participated.  There are still a few tree saplings left and the program will continue for a brief period until they are all gone. <\/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>Recycle Cell Phones \u2013 Get a Free Tree<\/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\/recycle-cell-phones-get-a-free-tree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recycle Cell Phones \u2013 Get a Free Tree\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clark Gardens Botanical Park in Texas in the United States recently came up with a novel way to try to entice people into cell phone recycling. 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