Good for Earth.
Great for your bottom line.
Mobile phones present a growing threat to the environment. Approximately 426,000 cell phones are retired every day in the United States alone. As of 2007, there
are more than 750 million mobile phones waiting to be recycled in the U.S., either sitting idle in American homes, or already in the waste stream. The problem is growing at a rate of two million phones per week, literally adding tons of hazardous waste to
our landfills.

Once in the waste stream, these devices may leak lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other toxic substances into the water supply. When municipalities incinerate their waste (an increasingly common practice), these toxic elements diffuse instantly into the air to be inhaled by the population—and eventually, to return to the Earth in the form of rainwater.