Mail your Old-CellPhone and Win $1,000 from PlantMyPhone

PlantMyPhone, the easy cellphone recycling service, announces the first winner of the PlantMyPhone cellphone recycling sweepstake on United Nations World Environment Day (June 5th). Jason Prodoehl of San Francisco, California became the winner of the $1,000 sweepstake by mailing in his old cellphone and being randomly drawn from the pool of participants that started recycling with PlantMyPhone since its launch two months ago in March 2010.

According the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans annually retire 130 million mobile devices, and many of these end up improperly disposed of in landfills. Cell phones waste often contains hazardous materials such as arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc. Disposing of cell phones in landfills enables these pollutants to seep into water, land and animals that interact with these toxins.

“Electronic waste is a serious problem in the world and we all need to do all we can to minimize the impact on the environment.” explained Jason ” I saw the poster at Starbucks about recycling my phone. It sounded like a great idea, and the organization name was quite clever. I mailed my old cell phone in less than 2 minutes. I was surprised about how easy it was to use PlantMyPhone.”

PlantMyPhone enables everyone to easily and properly recycle their old cellphone through the mail to fund the planting of new trees in reforestation

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