Recycling Electronics

Now that the dust has settled from the holidays you may be thinking about reorganizing your electronics and getting rid of old computers, televisions and other equipment. But where to go? For recycling tips and locations try http://www.MyGreenElectronics.org

Donating a Cellphone? Find Out How to Erase It

Thinking about donating an old cellphone but you’d like to wipe of it personal information before you do? These days you can do that right away on your smartphone (although it may not be obvious how to do it so read on), but older and less “smart” phones may be more of an issue. Fortunately a well respected phone-recycling firm called Recellular has a database of procedures to wipe clean cellphones at http://recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser. Choose the make and model of your phone from that page's drop-down menus, click the "Download Instructions" link, and type in your name, e-mail address and wireless carrier on the next page to have the instructions e-mailed to you. If you don’t see your particular phone listed you can email them from that page and they will research the instructions for you. Whew!