e-Cycle, a mobile buyback, data protection and recycling company, announced that it developed a “Get Started e-Cycling” digital tool kit to assist large businesses to manage their environmentally responsible, secure and profitable mobile phone recycling program.
The “Get Started e-Cycling” kit includes an interactive form that assists organizations to identify answers to their questions, detailed FAQ sheets, data security and environmental protection information, insurance overview, and other documents.
The guidance of e-Cycle’s experienced regional account managers enables the e-Cycle program to make it easy for enterprises to establish and maintain a sustainable, secure, and profitable wireless recycling program.
The wireless phone recycling program is in response to client feedback and qualitative research. e-Cycle had conducted personal interviews with representatives from more than 500 leading U.S. enterprises.
The outcome of these interviews suggests that mobile data security is the main problem enterprises face while beginning a mobile phone recycling program.
Organizations are aware of the growing electronics waste problem in the U.S. They understand about the financial and environmental benefits of wireless buyback. However, many do not have the knowledge and/or resources to initiate a recycling program.
“We found that many large organizations have no official recycling program in place and will either collect retired mobile phones in storage closets or simply destroy the reusable devices for scrap due to data security concerns,” said Steve Clark, VP of Sales, e-Cycle, in a statement. “These are not best practices from a security standpoint, an environmental standpoint or from a financial standpoint.”
Recently, e-Cycle announced April 2011 as “National Recycle Your Cell Phone (News - Alert) Month” to help raise awareness for the growing e-waste problem with mobile devices, and as a reminder for organizations to implement responsible mobile phone recycling programs.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Rich Steeves
