Recently, a few bloggers that I know of wrote posts about how they finally upgraded to smartphones. If you have recently upgraded – or if you upgraded a while ago and have old phones laying around, I encourage you to donate the phones you are no longer using to Verizon Wireless’s HopeLine Program.
With this program, Verizon Wireless collects no-longer-used wireless phones and equipment- in any condition, and from any service provider. The used phones are either refurbished or recycled. With the funds raised from the sale of the refurbished phones, Verizon Wireless donates wireless phones and airtime to survivors, and provides funding and other contributions to non-profit domestic violence shelters and prevention programs across the country.
Phones that cannot be refurbished are recycled in an environmentally sound way.
Since the launch of the cell phone recycling program, HopeLine from Verizon has:
- Collected more than 7 million phones
- Awarded more than $7.9 million in cash grants to domestic violence agencies and organizations throughout the country
- Distributed more than 90,000 phones with the equivalent of more than 300 million minutes of free wireless service to be used by victims of domestic violence
- Properly disposed of 1.6 million no-longer-used wireless phones in an environmentally sound way
- Kept more than 200 tons of electronic waste and batteries out of landfills
For more information, contact your local Verizon Wireless store. If you would like to help spread the word about HopeLine, please post this information on your own blog!
The more people know about the program, the more people who are helped by it!