Recycle Your Old Cell Phone

Less than 20 percent of unwanted cell phones are recycled each year. Recycling old phones helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste, save energy, and conserve natural resources.

 

An estimated 100 to 130 million cell phones are no longer being used, many tucked away in storage.

 

If Americans recycled 100 million phones, we could save enough upstream energy to power more than 194,000 U.S. households for a year. If consumers were able to reuse those 100 million cell phones, the environmental savings would be even greater, saving enough energy to power more than 370,000 U.S. homes each year.

 

Click here to find the many places and ways to recycle your old cell phone.