Recycle The Cell Phone Live Science: Recycle Your Old Cell Phone
All of the major U.S. cell phone carriers have recycling
programs, and your discarded phone could end up being of use to
someone else. Cell phone recycling or "reprocessing" as industry
experts like to say, may mean the cell phone is refurbished and
then resold, or dismantled and used for parts. In some cases,
phones are reduced to their essential components and reused. The
goal is always "zero-landfill," meaning no part of a device is
discarded in a landfill.