Cell Phone Recycling

Now that you have upgraded to a new cell phone, what do you do with the old one? Maybe you have old ones lying around the house and you’re not sure what to do with them.  Now is the perfect time to get rid of those environmental hazards in a safe, helpful, and effective way.

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As part of our green initiative, we have teamed up with Keep Charleston Beautiful to be a drop off site for their annual cell phone recycling drive.  Each January, Keep Charleston Beautiful collects old, unwanted cell phones to help keep them out of our landfills.  If the phone is in good working condition, it gets refurbished and distributed to charities in need.  If the phone is not useful, it is sent to a recycling center that strips them down to their parts to be recycled and then disposes properly of any chemicals and metals that are left behind.  Cell phones, as with most electronics, contain lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic.  These compounds can be very harmful to our environment if not disposed of properly and it is very important that we keep them out of our landfills.

To help Keep Charleston Beautiful collect more cell phones (and therefore keep more out of the landfill) we are offering our patients a $25 credit when they bring in their unwanted phones.  That credit can be applied towards an eye exam, eyeglasses, or sunglasses (except Maui Jim).  Hurry in, the cell phone recycling drive ends on January 31st!

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