A Greener Campus

I don’t know about you, but I get a new cell phone every year or so. But do you know that old cell phone of yours can be recycled? Well it can be and if you don’t recycle it, it ends up in a landfill or worse incinerated where inbedded toxins will be released into the atmosphere. However, I have found a great program called “Cell Phones For Soldiers” where donated cell phones are sold to a recycling firm and the profits are in turn used to provide phone cards for deployed soldiers. It’s an easy way to both help the environment by recycling while at the same time giving a soldier who is serving our country a chance to call home. AT&T has 2,000 retail stores that are official drop-off locations, or you can go to www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com and print a pre-paid shipping label. The choice is yours, but think of it this way every cell phone that is donated helps a soldier call home to a loved one, not recycling just contributes to the destruction of the planet we all live in.