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For Earth Day, carriers and cell phone recyclers ares encouraging people to recycle their cell phones. Recycling is important because cell phones contain toxic chemicals. 

We have listed the top best places to recycle your cell phone.  If your cell phone or smartphone is fairly new, you may be able to sell it on eBay. There are also companies that buy your used cell phone.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 10 percent of all cell phones that are discarded are actually recycled. ReCellular, estimates that recycling 2.5 million phones has prevented more than 153 tons of e-waste from entering landfills, the environmental equivalent of:

• Saving enough energy to power nearly 7,709 U.S. households for a year.
• Avoiding the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as removing more than 5,546 passenger cars from the roads for a year.
• And keeping more than 4 tons of toxic materials out of landfills.

Places to Sell your Cell Phone or Get Credits

• You can sell used cell phones to iBuyPhones.com for cash, or recycle qualifying phones. In conjunction with a partnership with American Forests, they will plant a tree for every recycled phone received. Currently, they pay $75 for an original iPhone and $200 for an iPhone 3G 16 GB. A BlackBerry Storm gets $150 while a BlackBerry Bold goes for $125.
  
• Recellular will only buy cell phones in lots of ten or more. However you can at www.recellulartradein.com get BestBuy Digital Dollars for your old phone.
• Go to www.sprint.com/recycle or go to any Sprint-owned retail stores nationwide to return eligible Sprint or Nextel devices for account credits with Sprint Buyback.

Where to Donate Your Cell Phone:

• Recellular has an online tool to help you find a donation box to donate your cell phone for charity.
• You can get free recycling labels from Cell Phones for Soldiers.
• Verizon accepts cell phones that raises money and give cell phones to  survivors of domestic for HopeLine.
  
• AT&T stores across the U.S. accept cell phones for recycling or youcan download free shipping labels from www.att.com/recyclewireless.
• Anyone can recycle with Sprint Project Connect.  Free postage-paid envelopes are available at any Sprint-owned retail store, and come in the box with most new phones sold by Sprint.

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