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\u201cWe have so many electronic products that we use,\u201d says National Solid Wastes Management state programs director Chris Miller.  \u201cThey are being far more widely distributed throughout the population of the country and they tend to have relatively short life spans.  Cell phones that last two or three years, computers that last maybe two or three years before they get replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

With more than four hundred million items that fall under the category of electronic waste, including used cell phones, being dumped every year, more and more US states are banning the material from being shipped to landfills and getting into the business of recycling.  In Baltimore, for instance, a recycling plant instantly rips apart old electronics and strips them for reusable parts.  \u201cThere are a lot of valuable minerals that can be recovered and reused as opposed to just putting them in the landfill, and in certain components there are some materials that should not really be dumped in the landfill,\u201d says plant manager Mike Fannon.  The good news, according to Fannon, is that the level of recycling in the US has gone up from just six per cent thirteen years ago to twenty per cent \u2013 but quite clearly, that also suggests there is still some way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More and more communities in the United States are getting involved in the recycling of old cell phones and other electronic goods as concern over the amount of electrical waste generated each year continues to mount.<\/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":"\nMore US Communities Get Into 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\/more-us-communities-get-into-cell-phone-recycling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More US Communities Get Into Cell Phone Recycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More and more 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