In keeping with our corporate citizenship goals, St. Francis Of Assisi School is proud to announce a new, environmentally responsible community service initiative designed to benefit local charities 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 St. Francis Of Assisi School representative. 100% of the proceeds from the recycling of these items will benefit St. Francis Of Assisi School

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NOTE: All donated laptops will have their hard drives removed and destroyed.

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 EcoPhones, 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.

About EcoPhones

Founded in 2001, EcoPhones is a leader in cellular phone fundraising and recycling. Working with over 30,000 organizations and communities nationwide, EcoPhones' participants have generated more than $2,500,000 for their local communities through the donation and recycling of obsolescent cellular phones.