The world’s leading mobile phone recycling firm, ReCellular, has recently announced that Investor Growth Capital (IGC) is investing $15 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing. ReCellular plans to use the new money to expand the reach and impact of the company. Among other initiatives, ReCellular plans to: Expand operations, opening new office facilities, consolidating processing [...]

Sprint-owned Boost Mobile is launching a mobile phone recycling program to support Global Inheritance, a non-profit organization working that works to "reinvent activism for today's young generation." Proceeds from the recycling effort will benefit the new Global Inheritance's website POSTed, which provides schools with free artistically designed posters promoting everything from recycling and exercise to [...]

ReCellular recently announced a new mobile phone recycling campaign with the goal to raise a minimum of $50,000 for the American Red Cross. Apparently two in three Americans will replace their mobile phones with a newer model this year, and the vast majority of them will either keep their old phones in a junk drawer, or [...]