Recycling a cell phone is now even easier thanks to participating member depots of the Eastern Recyclers Association.  Nova Scotians can now recycle their old cell phones ethically through CellCycle.ca at any one of almost 60 participating bottle depots across Nova Scotia.

With nearly 21,000,000 cell phones becoming obsolete in Canada every eighteen months stashed away in drawers, or worse, being tossed into the trash, recycling cell phones for Nova Scotians is now as easy as recycling empty bottles. While the wireless industry currently estimates that fewer than 15% of all cell phones get recycled, this is an important development in the step towards ensuring better diversion of the troublesome waste stream.

If disposed of by landfill, mobile phones can potentially contaminate land and water due to the presence of known toxic chemicals and carcinogens such as lead, mercury and arsenic. Recycling cell phones is not without challenges either, since the electronic recycling, reuse and refurbishment industry is largely unregulated, but CellCycle.ca is doing its part to combat unethical processing of used mobile devices by choosing to work with  partners located in Canada and the USA who are committed to preventing the export of electronic waste to third-world countries.

A complete listing of the new depots follows:

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