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City of Elsberry and Page Branch Park Committee initiate cell phone and laptop recycling drive

     In keeping with its citizenship goals, the City of Elsberry-Page Branch Park Committee has announced a new, environmentally responsible community service initiative designed to benefit local charities while simultaneously helping to alleviate the fast growing environmental problem of e-waste in the workplace.
     Simply dust off an old cell phone or laptop computer and drop it off with a designated Page Branch Park Committee representative. One-hundred percent of the proceeds from the recycling of these items will benefit Page Branch Park.
   For more information please contact Jo Ann Cordsiemon at cordsiemon.clerk@sbcglobal.net or call (573) 898-5589 or stop by Elsberry City Hall, 201 Broadway in Elsberry. Anyone wishing to  donate a cellphone or laptop can also drop them off to Sarah Hunt at the Joseph R. Palmer Family Memorial Library located at 501 Broadway in Elsberry.
NOTE: All donated laptops will have their hard drives removed and destroyed.

About Cellular Phone Waste

    Over 100 million cellular phones are stockpiled in U.S. households creating potentially hazardous waste. By 2008, an estimated 130 million cellular phones will be discarded annually in the U.S. alone. On average Americans replace their cell phones every 12 to 18 months. Unfortunately, cell phones contain eight toxic substances including: Arsenic, Antimony, Beryllium, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Nickel and Zinc. Although benign when properly refurbished or recycled by companies such as Recycling Fundraiser, these toxic substances pose a serious environmental and health risk if discarded improperly. Cell phone toxins leach into soil and groundwater from landfills and form highly toxic dioxins and furans during incineration. In fact, the cadmium from a single phone is capable of polluting 158,200 gallons of water. That’s 1.2 Million 16-ounce coffees! These toxins have been associated with cancer and range of reproductive, neurological and developmental disorders.

About Laptop Computer Waste

It takes about six hundred pounds of fossil fuels and chemicals to create the chips for one personal computer. Seventy pounds of water are used to rinse out impurities in a single chip. The amount of waste generated to produce one laptop is close to 4,000 times its weight. When you throwaway a 5-pound laptop you are throwing away roughly 20,000 pounds of waste.

About Recycling Fundraiser (www.RecyclingFundraiser.com)

Founded in 2001, Recycling Fundraiser is a leader in cellular phone fund raising and recycling. Working with over 40,000 organizations and communities nationwide, Recycling Fundraiser’s participants have generated more than $2,500,000 for their local communities through the donation and recycling of obsolescent cellular phones.
For more information please visit www.RecyclingFunclraiser.com