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The same folks who wanted to destroy the city of Springfield in The Simpsons movie, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is launching a public education campaign titled “Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s An Easy Call.”
According to EPA, “the ads will stress environmental and social reasons for recycling.” The agency also plans to release a podcast in which recycling specialists elaborate on their methodologies.
But it’s not just the advertising EPA wants to do – during this year they will organize several cellphone collections and will post a searchable list of cellphone drop-off centers on Web sites. In addition, they will make and distribute posters with the “It’s an easy call” tagline to partners, to post over drop-off bins.
EPA estimates there are as many as 150 million cellphones taken out of service each year…
[Via: textually.org]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
