CES: Reclaiming your dead gear is good for the planet

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When your old phone is burned, shredded, melted or otherwise recycled, chances are good that CWG will touch it. CWG of Bohemia, New York, keeps old phones out of landfill.

Your mobile phone company collects old phones from customers, then pass the gear to CWG. CWG sanitizes the gear, erasing customer data; fear of leaving personal or company data on a phone is a top reason for not recycling phones. CWG then salvages phone parts and tinier components from old handsets. Returning those parts to the phone company service department can save thirty to sixty percent on repair parts inventory.

If the people who put your phone into the ground are morticians, companies like CWG are the transplant team harvesting organs to save other phones.

tags: cwg, ces, ces2010, 2010, recycling, mobile, phones, hardware, reverselogistics, privacy

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