Top schools clean up in national challenge to recycle wireless devices

OTTAWA– The winning schools from across Canada who competed in a national recycling challenge for mobile phones and accessories where announced today. The 2011 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge, held in partnership with Waste Reduction Week in Canada, saw Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, wireless PDAs, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries. For 30 days beginning October 17, students from 134 schools across Canada participated in the second annual challenge and collected more than 6,000 wireless devices and close to 600 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries....