{"id":3603,"date":"2011-05-18T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:08:12","slug":"eia-calls-for-action-on-cell-phone-recycling-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/eia-calls-for-action-on-cell-phone-recycling-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"EIA Calls for Action on Cell Phone Recycling Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/recycle-symbol.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"recycle symbol\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/recycle-symbol.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1043 lazyload\" title=\"recycle symbol\" 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\/05\/recycle-symbol.gif\"><\/a>The Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) is calling for the government of the United Kingdom to take action and put in place tighter regulations of the companies that are assigned the responsibility for the recycling of the country\u2019s electronic waste, including old cell phones.&nbsp; The call comes after an investigation by the Environmental Investigations Agency and the BBC\u2019s \u201cPanorama\u201d program showed that two sites belonging to a major UK recycling firm shipped out broken televisions to foreign countries without even testing them first.&nbsp; This is actually a crime under the Waste Electrical and Electronic (WEE) Resources Regulations Act that was enacted five years ago in 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