{"id":3538,"date":"2011-04-11T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:05","slug":"big-success-for-cell-phone-recycling-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/big-success-for-cell-phone-recycling-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Success for Cell Phone Recycling Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mobile-Phones-and-recycle-logo.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-808\" title=\"Mobile Phones and recycle logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mobile-Phones-and-recycle-logo.jpg\" alt width=\"173\" height=\"79\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-808 lazyload\" title=\"Mobile Phones and recycle logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20173%2079%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"173\" height=\"79\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Mobile-Phones-and-recycle-logo.jpg\"><\/a>An event held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds at the weekend to allow the general public to hand in their old cell phones and other electrical equipment for recycling was a big success by any standards, ultimately filling up seven semi-tractor trailers.&nbsp; The event, which took place at the Orr Building on Saturday, was staged by the Sangamon County Health Department as a way for people to dispose of their used cell phones and other unwanted electrical goods free of charge and in an environmentally responsible manner.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Holland, an eighty year old man from Springfield, was one of many who took advantage of the event, recycling a computer, monitor, printer and a box full of various other electrical items.&nbsp; \u201cSome of this stuff I\u2019ve probably carried back and forth from the east coast to the west coast with the thought that I might use it some time,\u201d he admits.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m old enough now where you start thinking about getting some stuff out of your house so somebody else won\u2019t have to worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vintage Tech Recyclers, a recycling company based out of Romeoville, took care of processing all the old cell phones and other electrical goods handed in for recycling.&nbsp; \u201cThe computer equipment and monitors will get reused as long as they can be rebuilt,\u201d notes supervisor James Larkin.&nbsp; \u201cThe rest will be torn down.\u201d Larkin adds that the company has a policy of allowing absolutely nothing that they are handed to end up as being landfill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds at the weekend to allow the general public to hand in their old cell phones and other electrical equipment for recycling was a big success by any standards, ultimately filling up seven semi-tractor trailers.  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