NATIONAL RECYCLING COALITION
WIKIPEDIA- RECYCLING
Recycling and Reusing cell phones:
ECO-CELL is the premiere cell phone recycling program for environmentally minded fundraisers. Their passion is to provide their conservation partners with the most profitable, easy to use and environmentally sound cell phone recycling program possible.
CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS turns old cell phones into prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas.
AT&T REUSE AND RECYCLE- program donates, recycles and resells wireless phones and accessories.
SPRINT PROJECT CONNECT – Donated wireless phones are recycled or sold, with a portion of the net proceeds benefiting K-12 education programs (On Sprint home page click on "About Us" section and then go to Citizenship listed under Company Info. Click on Wireless Recycling at left margin of page).
Verizon Wireless offers their HopeLine© program which collects no-longer-used cell phones from any service provider; it donates phones and airtime to domestic violence victims as well as funding to domestic violence shelters and prevention programs.(Home page to About Us to Hopeline(c) Program under Corporate Responsibility)
Recycle computers:
RUTH'S REUSABLE RESOURCES: "Our mission is to ensure that students and classrooms in Maine have the basic tools for learning by transferring the community's surplus supplies and merchandise into the hands of school children and teachers."
COSTCO has set up a free Web site where visitors can choose what they want to recycle and various features (manufacturer, accessories, etc.). After you choose from the options, you’ll be given a trade-in value and a pre-paid shipping label. Your Costco Cash card will arrive about a month later (Home page and click over word Electronics and then go to Trade-in/Recycle under drop down menu)
SHARE THE TECHNOLOGY - computer recycling project
RECYCLES.ORG- Nonprofit Materials Exchange Network/ Computer & Office Electronics Recycling & Reuse.Linking donors together with recipients on the web since 1994
THE NATIONAL CRISTINA FOUNDATION is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the support of training through donated technology. For more than two decades we have encouraged companies and individuals to donate computers and other technology, which is then matched to charities, schools and public agencies in all 50 states, Canada, and in many countries around the world.
Recycle Batteries:
Through our national program, Call2Recycle™ , the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) can help you recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones.RBRC is dedicated to keeping rechargeable batteries and cell phones out of our nation’s solid waste stream and preserving natural resources.
BATTERY SOLUTIONS INC.- We strive to protect human health and the environment by using the most advanced technologies to recover and re-use the heavy metals from waste batteries.
Recycling and Reusing Bicycles:
INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE FUND: Donating Surplus Bicycles & International Bicycle Recycling Programs
Mid-Atlantic States:
PEDALS FOR PROGRESS: We rescue bicycles destined for overburdened U.S. landfills and ship them to developing countries where they are sorely needed and highly valued.
In NYC area:
RECYCLE-A-BICYCLE is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs.
Recycling and Reusing Books:
BRIDGE TO ASIA promotes equal access to knowledge--it supplies books, journals, databases and other educational materials that are essential to teaching and research but too costly for most developing countries to afford.
Bookins.com- Find your old books a new home. Swap books with other readers. We make it easy.
We are a group of readers who share books with each other (NOT just paperbacks) for nothing more than the cost of postage!
BOOK ENDS, a nonprofit organization based in Southern California, is about Kids Helping Kids.
Recycling Printer and Toner Cartridges:
Cartridges for a Cure- Here's a FREE and EASY way to contribute your used CARTRIDGES FOR A CURE for childhood cancers.
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