At Phone Medics Plus we are committed to doing our part to care for our environment and help our community. That’s why we accept your used personal electronics for recycling.
As technology becomes a bigger part of our lives, it unfortunately also becomes a bigger portion of our garbage. Electronic waste, or “e-waste,” is the fastest growing form of waste in the nation. Millions of tons of e-waste go into landfills every year. Cell phones are a major component of this waste. The average cell phone is used for 18 months or less, and an estimated 140 million cell phones are thrown away every year. Not only does this waste take up an enormous amount of space in our landfills, it also represents a significant environmental threat. Many of the materials and components that are in your cell phone can be harmful to the environment. Phone in landfills can leak chemicals like cadmium, lithium, nickel, beryllium, and even arsenic into our soil and groundwater, where they present a hazard to plants, wildlife, and people.
So bring your old phone, tablet, or PC to our facility at 91 E. Merritt Island Causeway in Merritt Island today. Do it for the environment. Do it for the economy. Do it for the puppies.
As technology becomes a bigger part of our lives, it unfortunately also becomes a bigger portion of our garbage. Electronic waste, or “e-waste,” is the fastest growing form of waste in the nation. Millions of tons of e-waste go into landfills every year. Cell phones are a major component of this waste. The average cell phone is used for 18 months or less, and an estimated 140 million cell phones are thrown away every year. Not only does this waste take up an enormous amount of space in our landfills, it also represents a significant environmental threat. Many of the materials and components that are in your cell phone can be harmful to the environment. Phone in landfills can leak chemicals like cadmium, lithium, nickel, beryllium, and even arsenic into our soil and groundwater, where they present a hazard to plants, wildlife, and people.
And yet, many of the components of your phone can be taken out and reused, repurposed, or recycled. That includes your phone’s glass screen, the copper in its wiring, the plastic in its casing, and much more. In fact, electronic devices even have precious metals like gold and silver inside. If you were to look inside those 140 million phones that get thrown away every year you’d find as much as $60 million in precious metals alone.
Recycling your old phone, tablet, or PC helps the environment in a wide variety of ways. Not only does it keep harmful chemicals out of the earth, it also creates massive savings in energy and resources. Manufacturing a single cell phone with all its components uses significant amounts of energy and raw materials, including water, fossil fuels, and various chemicals. By recycling your phone you significantly reduce the amount of new raw materials that have to be extracted or manufactured to create new devices.
Despite the many environmental and economic benefits of recycling phones and other electronics, only about 15% of e-waste is recycled every year, leaving the rest of our devices to ultimately find their way into landfills. Unfortunately, recycling your devices isn’t always easy. Unlike the soda cans in your refrigerator or the cardboard cereal box in your cabinet, you can’t just toss a cell phone or tablet into the recycling bin when you’re done with it.
That’s where Phone Medics Plus comes in. When you bring us your used cell phone, tablet, or laptop, we will recycle it for you. Any components of your device that can be repurposed or reused will be, and the rest will be sold to a local recycling firm. What’s more, all proceeds from the sale of this material will go to the Brevard Humane Society. This means that when you bring us your device you aren’t just getting all of the environmental and economic benefits of recycling, you’re also helping care for homeless animals in our community.
Recycling your old phone, tablet, or PC helps the environment in a wide variety of ways. Not only does it keep harmful chemicals out of the earth, it also creates massive savings in energy and resources. Manufacturing a single cell phone with all its components uses significant amounts of energy and raw materials, including water, fossil fuels, and various chemicals. By recycling your phone you significantly reduce the amount of new raw materials that have to be extracted or manufactured to create new devices.
Despite the many environmental and economic benefits of recycling phones and other electronics, only about 15% of e-waste is recycled every year, leaving the rest of our devices to ultimately find their way into landfills. Unfortunately, recycling your devices isn’t always easy. Unlike the soda cans in your refrigerator or the cardboard cereal box in your cabinet, you can’t just toss a cell phone or tablet into the recycling bin when you’re done with it.
That’s where Phone Medics Plus comes in. When you bring us your used cell phone, tablet, or laptop, we will recycle it for you. Any components of your device that can be repurposed or reused will be, and the rest will be sold to a local recycling firm. What’s more, all proceeds from the sale of this material will go to the Brevard Humane Society. This means that when you bring us your device you aren’t just getting all of the environmental and economic benefits of recycling, you’re also helping care for homeless animals in our community.
So bring your old phone, tablet, or PC to our facility at 91 E. Merritt Island Causeway in Merritt Island today. Do it for the environment. Do it for the economy. Do it for the puppies.
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