GO GREEN Recycle Program!
Higher Learning Network is proud to announce a new, environmentally responsible community service initiative designed to benefit YOUTH while simultaneously helping to alleviate the fast growing environmental problem of e-waste in the workplace. But we need your help…
Simply dust off your old cell phone or laptop computer and drop it off with your designated Higher Learning Network representative. 100% of the proceeds from the recycling of these items will benefit HLN/Youth Media Training Programs
For more information please contact:
Mechelle – Assistant Director
HigherLearningNw@gmail.com
(312) 409-6619
Call for Drop-Off/Pick Up Location / Instructions
About Cellular Phone Waste
Over 100 million cellular phones are stockpiled in U.S. households creating potentially hazardous waste. By 2008, an estimated 130 million cellular phones will be discarded annually in the U.S. alone. On average Americans replace their cell phones every 12 to 18 months.
Unfortunately, cell phones contain eight toxic substances including: Arsenic, Antimony, Beryllium, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Nickel and Zinc. Although benign when properly refurbished or recycled by companies such as Recycling Fundraiser, these toxic substances pose a serious environmental and health risk if discarded improperly. Cell phone toxins leach into soil and groundwater from landfills and form highly toxic dioxins & furans during incineration. In fact, the cadmium from a single phone is capable of polluting 158,200 gallons of water. That's 1.2 Million 16-ounce coffees! These toxins have been associated with cancer and range of reproductive, neurological and developmental disorders.
About Laptop Computer Waste
It takes about six hundred pounds of fossil fuels and chemicals to create the chips for one personal computer. Seventy pounds of water are used to rinse out impurities in a single chip. The amount of waste generated to produce one laptop is close to 4,000 times its weight. When you throw away a 5-pound laptop you are throwing away roughly 20,000 pounds of waste.
Donate your items and get a tax deduction!
Allowable to the fullest extinct of the law.
Electronics!
- Phones
- Faxes
- Printers
- Copiers
- TV's
- VCR's
- DVD Players
- Mp3 Players
- Ipods
- Appliances, etc.
Furniture
- Sofas
- Love Seats
- Chairs
- Stools, etc.
Automobiles
- Cars
- Trucks
- Vans
- Scooters
- Bikes, etc.
Call To Have Our DriveR Pick Up Your Items FREE OF CHARGE!
Higher Learning Network’s mission is to empower and teach urban youth and adults how to develop their own natural gifts, talents and abilities: with a focus on life skills, job training and entreprenurial skills. HLN offers youths options for their future. Please do what you can to assist us in the process. Higher Learning comes from within. Trust the process!
For more information please call us at 312/409/6619
or email: HigherLearningNw@gmail.com
or
HigherLearningNw@yahoo.com
Everything you do does make a difference!
Your Donations Make The Environment Safer and Cleaner For Everyone on Earth!
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