Cell Phone Recycling

What you should do before you donate.
1) Erase all stored information, including your incoming/outgoing phone numbers, phone book and text messages.
2) Make sure the cell phone account has been completely terminated.

The following links provide recycling options for cell phones.
Most of these companies will send shipping labels/postage to you via the mail or you can print the labels/postage off their website to ship your boxes of cell phones.

General information on cell phone recycling.

http://www.epa.gov/cellphone/

This non-profit company will donate a portion of recycled cell phone sales to a partnered nonprofit organization.

http://www.call2recycle.org/

These nonprofits (501©(3)) initiate and oversee programs to help American communities.

This company that will donate 100% of the profit from the recycled cell phones to charitable programs.

http://www.sprint.com/community/communities_across/spc.html

These for profit companies will donate a percentage of the profits from your recycled cell phones to a nonprofit organization they are partnered with.

These for profit companies are doing business to assist nonprofits in setting up cell phone recycling fundraiser drives.

This company will take your recycled cell phones for their own profit.

http://www.hobi.com/recycle.html

These businesses will buy your recycled cell phones for cash.