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Title: Green for Green Cell Phones
Date: 11/20/07
Length: 21:36
Junkies: Jason Huffman, Suman Dutta, Jeff Mazzabufi

Topics:

• Cool new devices (cell phone envy) and growing popularity of smart phones are creating boxes of used cell phones still in mint condition at enterprises.
  
• ReCellular is largest recycler of cell phones in North America, handling 5 million cell phones/year -- 50% of the cell phone recycling market. But 100 million to 120 million wind up in the trash.
  
• The green you can get for used phones includes $30-$50 for some used Razors, $140 for used BlackBerry Pearls. Prices established for 900 phone models.
  
• Even water-logged cell phones contain valuable data that must be wiped. 
• Other Web sites mentioned during the podcast:
  
  Mobile Explosion '08 www.MobileExplosion.com
  ReCellular's Data Eraser http://www.recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser/
  Cell Phones for Soldiers www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com
  ReCellular www.recellular.com
  

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