Comments on: AT&T Partners With EPA to Increase E-cycling

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Raise money for a little league team, charity or for your school by having a cell phone and electronics drive. Donate your cell phones or electronics to Recellshop.com and we will send the proceeds to your cause, in your name. It’s that simple! It is a great opportunity for your customers and employees to help fund a local charity and help clean up the environment. It’s a great way to enhance your public image and to get friends, family, partners and customers involved. Add the drive to your website to maximize the amount of phones and electronics you receive. This will increase the amount of money your charity will receive in your name. Start today!

By: madgreengirl

madgreengirl — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:29:21 +0000

AT&T touts all this recycle garbage, yet when you cancel or move for U-Verse service they will not take back the power cords, cables, remotes or batteries!!!! AND they mentions nothing in their return merchandise paperwork about the proper way to dispose of those items (not the trash!!) just that you you can ‘keep them free of charge’! All that is going in the landfill. SHAME ON YOU HYPOCRITES @ AT&T!!! Take back your stuff and reuse or recycle it!!!!!

By: Scott Cox

Scott Cox — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:35:12 +0000

Touch of sarcasm there at the end, but it’s not looking like anybody missed it…

By: Scott Cox

Scott Cox — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:07:49 +0000

I like hearing that AT&T is partnering with the EPA since the majority of the US’s e-waste ends up being shipped to Africa, India or China where there is little to no safeguards for the adults and children sifting through the waste. Greenpeace put a tracking device in a tv in the UK through a reputable recycling program, and it ended up in Africa where it was not supposed to be. And that’s what is happening here in the States as well.

But there’s another problem with cell phones that the majority of consumers do not know about, and that’s the conflict-related minerals that come from Eastern Congo – the 3 T’s, tin, tungsten and tantalum (sp?), which are fueling the deadliest war in the world (where women are the main victims by rape). Call your provider and ask that your phone be “Conflict-Free” as there are more humane, be it costly options for these minerals.

So even though AT&T made maximum campaign contributions to the pro-war Bush and McCain campaigns and gave up customer call records without government warrant, and contributed to Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) who called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” I guess this is a good step forward.

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Cell phones recycle » CELL-PHONE-RECYCLING - — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:28:49 +0000

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Cell phone donation » DONATE-PHONES - — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:04:36 +0000

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By: Trey Granger

Trey Granger — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:25:10 +0000

So AT&T is looking to increase recycling of the main three forms of e-waste, but it’s only accepting cell phones?