[Students] Cell Phone, PDA, & Ink Cartridge Recycling Project

[Amandah Norman]

You Can Change Lives by Donating Your Retired Cell Phones
Recycle to Eradicate Poverty
 

The Chiapas Project is a nonprofit organization founded by
prominent Dallas business and civic leaders to support
microfinancing programs for women in poverty. The Chiapas
Project receives funds for each cell phone/PDA and each ink
jet cartridge donated. This project raises funds for
microfinance loans that make it possible for women in poor
families - who typically live on less than $2 dollars a day
- to earn much-needed income and rise above the poverty
level. These women can buy chickens and sheep to raise,
plant trees to produce and sell fruit, purchase a corn
grinder to make tortillas for the market, or buy cloth to
create and sell handicrafts. The loan repayment rate is a
remarkable 98 percent. As a result, women are able to save
for the future, invest in their children's education, and
raise families in healthier environments.

 

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

The cell phone/PDA and ink jet cartridge recycling boxes are
placed in six convenient locations throughout campus. Please
take a minute of your day to collect any old cell phones/PDA
and ink jet cartridges you may have to donate.

 

The locations of these boxes are as follows:

~ Ferguson Social Science Building (2nd floor, near
Sociology/CJ dept. offices)

~ Student Access Center (near Financial Aid/Registrar’s
desk)

~ Jerry D. Morris Recreational Center (across from reception
desk)

~ Sam Rayburn Student Center (1st floor, across from the
Mane office)

~ McDowell Administration/BA Building (first floor across
from cashier’s window)

~ (soon to be a location at the Mesquite Metroplex as
well...info TBA)


If you have any further questions about this organization or
how you can help, please feel free to contact me. Amandah
Norman: anorman2 at leo.tamu-commerce.edu or visit
www.chiapas-project.org for more information. The Chiapas
Project is working in conjunction with Phoneraiser; (972)
239-9911
 

Here’s a few interesting facts:
~ One cell phone in a landfill can pollute up to 35,000
gallons of drinking water
~ Cell phones contain no less than eight toxic substances,
including arsenic, lead, and mercury
~ There are more than 500 million retired cell phones in the
US and every month 10 million more cell phones are retired