I saw this recycling box at the local camera shop. No, I wasn’t shopping, I had to go there for work. I was surprised to see the red dot that says, “10% of proceeds will go to charity”. 10%? There are a lot of collection boxes where all of the proceeds go to charity. I know there’s some cost involved with the recycling or repurposing of electronics, but this is clearly a retail profit center. I’m not against retailers making money, but if you have a choice of 10% or 100% of proceeds going to help people, wouldn’t you rather choose 100%?
The really important thing here is that these electronics don’t end up in a landfill. Most of them contain toxic materials that pollute our drinking water and our environment. As long as the dumb phones, VCR’s, camcorders, old cameras and old computers stay out of the trash, I can live with a little bit of retailer pocket padding. If you have a choice of 10% or 100% though, go for the 100%.
Many of the local elementary schools have battery and cell phone collection bins. They recycle them and use the profit for the school.
Awesome!!! I know my kids bring batteries and started the battery recycling at the church. Our Celebrate Recovery program has a cell phone recycling box at the church. :)
Y’all have battery and phone recycling at the church?? Really??? I need that. Also I am looking for somewhere to ditch my old laptops safely and without too much effort. I hate all this STuFF it steals my time just trying to get rid of it!!!! Ugghh