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FOA's GREEN INITIATIVE
Why Recycle My Cell Phone? There are more than 500 million used cell phones in the US sitting on shelves or in our landfills, and another 130 million will be added this year alone. The problem is growing at a rate of more than 2 million phones per week. Cell phones contain toxic materials such as lead, mercury, beryllium, arsenic, cadmium, and antimony. If incinerated these substances can pollute the air, in landfills they can leach into groundwater. Many of the materials found in cell phones are also on the EPA's list of persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs). Because PBTs accumulate in fatty tissue of humans and animals, the toxins are gradually concentrated, putting those at the top of the food chain at the greatest risk, especially children. According to the EPA, "PBTs are associated with a range of adverse human health effects, including damage to the nervous system, reproductive and developmental problems, cancer and genetic impacts.". How Do I Recycle My Cell Phone? Friends of the Animals has partnered with Earthworks to make recycling your cell phone fast, simple and free! Best of all when you choose to recycle your cell phone through Friends of the Animals not only are you helping the environment, you're helping to support our homeless pets because a portion of the proceeds goes directly to our non-profit animal shelter. Good for the earth, good for our homeless pets, everyone wins! Currently we have the following drop off locations:
More locations will be available soon so please check back for updates. If you are a business owner and you would like to host a drop off box for us please contact us. Can't make it into one of our drop off locations? No problem! Visit this link for information on how to recycle your cell phone from anywhere in the United States for free! What Can Be Recycled?Every cell phone can be recycled. All makes and models of mobile phones from all over the world, pagers and PDAs (like Palm Pilots) are also accepted. Be sure to include the batteries, chargers and other accessories too. The age or condition of a phone is not important! Every cell phone can and should be recycled. Just be sure to deactivate your service plan before you send in your phone. Recycle Your Refundable Beverage Containers At Friends of the Animals Since the first Earth Day in 1970, 2.3 trillion beverage containers have been wasted (landfilled, littered or incinerated) in the United States. This includes:
The negative impact this causes on our fragile environment is simply not acceptable. Friends of the Animals encourages everyone to please recycle your beverage containers and to please consider dropping off your refundable beverage containers at our shelter. All refundable bottles are recycled properly and the proceeds go directly to caring for our homeless pets until they find their forever-homes. Please contact us for more information. Did You Know? Did you know our website is powered by 100% renewable energy? Most people don't think about the connection between global warming and web hosting. The electricity consumed by data centers (where servers are stored) is globally equivalent to the production of 14 coal fired 1,000-megawatt power plants (click here for source). To give you some idea of how much electricity that is; a 1000-megawatt power plant can service the needs of a city the size of Boston or Seattle! When you take into account that traditional coal fired electricity generation spews around 1,970 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per megawatt-hour, you can get some idea of just how much an impact the hosting industry must have on global warming. Aside from the carbon dioxide, the main offender when it comes to global warming, coal power also generates other poisonous emissions such as mercury and sulfur dioxide. Friends of the Animals is proud to do our part to help battle global warming by using Thinkhost for our web hosting needs. Thinkhost uses only wind and solar energy to power their data centers. Not only that, they provide unbeatable customer service, plant a new tree for each new client, have great prices, and are just down right friendly folks. They also offer substantial discounts or free hosting options to non-profit (501c3) organizations. Please consider Thinkhost for your web hosting needs! Click here to visit Thinkhost.
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