June 1st, 2010 
Patrick Hebert Fido wireless has done a decent job at recycling cell phones over the past few years. They’re advertising that they’ve recycled 500,000 cell phones and raised $750,000 for food banks across Canada. While they are competition to CellCycle.ca, that’s no small accomplishment and they deserve kudos for their accomplishment.
If you do the math, that adds up to about $1.50 donated per cell phone. CellCycle.ca’s philosophy when it comes to recycling cell phones is different though. We don’t pay flat rates per phone, instead what we do is analyze the phones collected by our charity and private collectors and pay them values based on the fair market value of each phone with a guaranteed minimum of $0.25 per handset to no maximum. A Blackberry under 3 years old would earn one of our collectors much more than $1.50.
That said, given the low recycling rate of cell phones in Canada, Fido deserves praise for this accomplishment.
Good Fido! You deserve a treat!
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