Posts Tagged ‘recycle your cell phone’

Get a free seedling when you recycle your cell phone at Barrie’s eco-fest!

Mark your calendars! Ecofest 2010 is coming to Barrie on Saturday, June 12 and we’ll be there handing out free tree seedlings to everyone who takes the time to recycle a cell phone with us there at the festival. We’re not Canada’s largest cell phone recycler… in fact, we may be among the smallest but [...]

Reuse for GSM or Recycle?

With the launch of Bell & Telus’ new 3G GSM network, many people are wondering if they can use an older Rogers, Fido, or other unlocked GSM phone instead of buying a new one.  The answer is unfortunately not so simple – SOME cell phones will work while others will not and those cell phones [...]

CellCycle adds nearly 60 New Places to Recycle your Cell Phone

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 [...]

The First 50 Seedlings take root

After collecting 50 cell phones in May, we executed our first 50 seedling planting today at the public park on Sun King Crescent in Barrie’s south end.  Despite teeming rain, the soil was soft and permitted us to get the trees in the ground without issue.  We’re hoping to have several hundred seedlings to plant [...]

Locations

Looking for a place to responsibly recycle your old cell phone? CellCycle.ca has teamed up with many independent locations across Canada where you can recycle your cell phone in: British Columbia New Brunswick Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ontario Want to earn some cash as a cell phone collector? Click here.