Most people have gone through 5-17 cell phones in the relatively short span of the gadget's ubiquity. But what happens to your crap-ass Chocolate when you trade up for an iPhone? If you're like most people, it usually sits in a drawer, gets tossed in the trash, or awaits use as a convenient projectile weapon.
But here's what could happen to your old cell phone:
Who knew cell phones were literally tiny little mines of precious metals?
I'd recycle my cell phone, but I still have the same one I've always had. It's the kind you wear as a backpack and have to kneel down and get someone else to crank to use. You know, the WWII kind.





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Corey Binns
says:
The The New York Times recently traced the long journey of a recycled cell phone. My old Samsung will probably end up in Myanmar.
January 24, 2008 11:08 PM
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