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Earth Day 2008: Are You Green?

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Apr 22, 2008, 2:00 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Phone Scoop looks at what you can do to be greener. Also, find out what the carriers and manufacturers are doing.

Today is Earth Day. Phone Scoop decided to take a few moments to look at what the mobile community is doing and what it can do to promote less waste and greener consumption of mobile products. First we're going to offer some basic advice on what you can do in your own life, and then we'll peek at what the mobile network operators and mobile handset manufacturers are doing to reduce, reuse, recycle.

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About the author, Eric M. Zeman:

Eric has been covering the mobile telecommunications industry for 17 years at various print and online publications. He studied at Rutgers Newark and University of Kentucky, and has a degree in writing. He likes playing guitar, attending concerts, listening to music, and driving sports cars.

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xjittianx

Apr 23, 2008, 7:16 PM

T-Mobile's Huddle Up Program

T-Mobile recycles phones as well, which the 100% of the proceeds go to the huddle up program. The Huddle Up program is "a national community outreach program that connects kids, primarily from single-parent families in high-need, urban communities to positive people, places, and programs. Through T-Mobile Huddle Up, we invest monetary resources as well as employee time and energy in the communities where we do business. T-Mobile Huddle Up addresses the critical need for high-quality afterschool programs by providing a safe, fun place for kids to go after school."

find out more here:
http://www.t-mobile.com/huddleup »

liteitup

Apr 22, 2008, 9:23 AM

AT&T big on recycling? haha, funny

I work for an agent for AT&T. Im tired of getting shipped 10 SIM cards in a box the size of 2 shoe boxes. Or getting a 8 1/2" x 11" flyer in a box big enough to fit a 42" flat screen lcd in. They waste so much money on plastic and cardboard when they ship things. 😡

CellularFanattic1

i know that is right i work for an agent to and i have a mall location and the store is no bigger than the size of a kiosk and i get boxes in with the big window signs that are made for store stores so they waste not only the box but the paper it took...
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retrolike

Hell no I'm not green, and neither is Al Gore-look at his many homes, none which are green friendly. I'm a fan of the Global Freezing which was the fad 30+ years ago.

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