Renew: The New Green Cell Phone From Motorola
The average American replaces their cell phone about every 18 to 24 months. Often when you renew your contract, the phone company gives you a brand new phone for free. With most American’s now owning cell phones, that adds up to an enormous amount of phones making their ways to the local landfills.
In fact, about 90 percent of the cell phones that either no longer work or are no longer used, end up in land fills. These phones soon begin to leak toxic chemicals into the earth such as mercury, lead, cadmium and brominated flame retardant chemicals.
Recently, Motorola came out with a new “green” cell phone called Renew. The T-Mobile phone has a plastic housing that is made from recycled plastic bottles. By recycling bottles to make the phone, manufacturing them requires 20 percent less energy.
And, when you’re ready for a new phone, you simply use the postage paid envelope that comes with the phone to ship it back to the company for recycling.