Recycling cell phones can contain hazardous chemicals such as cadmium, lead and mercury. Unless properly recycled, these chemicals could make their way from landfills into our soil and into the water we drink and air we breathe.
PlantMyPhones recycles with partners that adhere to a no export, not landfill policy that ensures that hazardous materials are not exported to third world countries and that no materials end up in land fills.
PlantMyPhone recycling partners are ISO 14001 certified.
For more detail on how PlantMyPhone recycles, please click here.
Planting Trees Helps Our Planet Fight Climate Change
On average, each tree planted in the humid tropics absorbs 50 pounds of carbon dioxide every year for at least 40 years, amounting to one ton over the course of the tree's lifetime.
Tree cover also reflects solar radiation back into space and facilitates the evaporation of water into the atmosphere, increasing cloud formation. (Clouds help cool the planet by reflecting incoming solar radiation.)
How PlantMyPhone Trees Are Planted
Award-winning nonprofit organizations specializing in agroforestry projects—which restore depleted lands and boost the agricultural productivity and incomes of indigenous peoples in some of the poorest parts of the world—plant the actual trees
PlantMyPhone trees are planted in 12 tropical countries: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Zambia, India, Philippines and Haiti. Species include Cocoa, Coffee, Banana, Orange, Cedar, Teak, Mahogany, Oak, Acacia, Eucalyptus, Laurel and Leucaena.
I'm sure many of you have old phones hanging around. So, I hope you take the time to check it out. Happy day, everyone!
