Make a Difference by Eliminating Clutter
Is your home or office cluttered with old cell phones you don’t know what to do with? During Stroke Awareness Month, from June 1 to June 30, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, in partnership with the Chartered Insurance Professional Society - Hamilton/Niagara Chapter, will be collecting old cell phones for recycling. For every cell phone that you donate, $1 will be given to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. You can drop off your old cell phones any time during the month of June at 1439 Upper Ottawa Street in Hamilton - Heart and Stroke Foundation Hamilton Office (Unit # 7) or Chartered Insurance Professional Society - Hamilton/Niagara Chapter (Unit 4 and 5).
It’s that simple to reduce your clutter, keep cell phones out of landfill, and help the Heart and Stroke Foundation breakthrough medical advancements, effect social change, and educate individuals, families and health professionals to get results that change lives!
Do you have other items you no longer need or want, but don’t know what to do with? Visit Charity Village for a listing of other organizations accross Canada that accept items for recycling, including clothing, computers and other electronic equipment, furniture and household items, renovation and building materials, vehicles, and even industrial machinery!
I agree it’s a great idea to recycle, but do people realize that all the info they stored on those old cell phones is actually still in there? I didn’t know it either, but go read this
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/recovering_data.html, and
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17610867/
Of course, as always, know thyself. If all you ever saved on your cell phone is your Aunt Myra’s phone number, I guess it’s ok. But do we even remember what we once stored on an old phone? I certainly don’t, and with our obsession these days of saving electronic data on every piece of equipment known to man (and woman), I would be surprised if some people didn’t have some personal information on their recycables that they’d rather not have passed around.
Perhaps the Heart and Stroke Foundation would accept other items instead?
Cheers.
Yochi
Comment by Yochi — June 12, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
I realise that every dollar can make a difference but I’m sure they could donate more than $1 per phone.
Comment by Tom — June 12, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Yochi, thanks for sharing those links - that is very important information to be aware of!
Comment by Janet Barclay — June 14, 2007 @ 2:40 pm