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EcoATM recycling efforts surpass 2 million devices

January 17, 2014

The electronics recycling kiosk company ecoATM announced this week that it has recycled more than two million phones and devices in its four-year history. The company reached the one-million mark in April 2013.

According to a news release from the company, the collection of two million devices has enabled the recovery or reuse of:

• 500,000 pounds of devices — three space shuttles worth of plastics, metals and potentially toxic materials;
• 70,000 pounds of copper — enough to create a second Statue of Liberty (made of 62,000 pounds of copper) and still have extra; and
• 1,544 pounds of silver — enough to create 22,540 American eagle silver dollar coins (made of .0685 pounds of silver).

"More people across the country are realizing the hidden value in the phones and devices they've been tossing into junk drawers for years, and with only 20 percent of cell phones being recycled today, there is incredible potential for millions of Americans," said Mark Bowles, ecoATM's founder and CMO. "Our goal is to offer consumers an opportunity to convert their clutter into cash while doing the right thing for the environment by keeping tons of toxic waste out of our nation's landfills."

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