GreenandMore.com recently launched their iPod recycling program for up to a $150 store credit towards anything in their online store.

"This is the ultimate opportunity to recycle an old iPod that would either collect dust or add to landfill waste -- and receive a store credit for doing a green deed." says Mercia Tapping, President.

Using an online iPod value calculator, a visitor will know the estimated value of an iPod before choosing to recycle it. If a visitor chooses to accept the deal, an envelope will arrive at a door several days later for convenient mailing of the iPod. The store credit of up to $150 will be sent to the recipient for use, and can go towards the purchase of any eco-friendly items at GreenandMore.com. It's that simple.

Link for details about the iPod recycling program and the online iPod value calculator: http://www.greenandmore.com/ipod-trade-in.html

N.E.W. Customer Service Companies is pleased to announce Sam’s Club has launched ecoNEW, its new online electronics recycling service that helps members nationwide get rid of their older, unwanted, small to medium size electronics through a free, easy-to-use, environmental solution for e-waste recycling. Sam’s Club Members may trade in their older electronics for a gift card which is determined by a recycle trade-in value generated through the website. Sam’s Club’s ecoNEW program accepts LCD monitors, digital cameras, PC desktops and laptops, gaming systems, MP3 players, camcorders, and printers. Even if the product does not qualify for a trade-in value, the program still accepts the product for recycling and provides a pre-paid shipping label.

The ecoNEW program operated by NEW has a “no export and no landfill” guarantee. Electronic equipment received will either be reconditioned or recycled. Some items may be sold into the secondary or used marketplace in whole machine form or disassembled and sold off as usable service parts. Recycled equipment and parts will then be broken down into raw material and used to produce new materials. The parts may become part of NEW’s service repair network that supports more than 150 million customers across the U.S. NEW is the nation’s leading provider of extended service plans and buyer protection programs for consumer products.

Americans discard on average 40,000 cell phones every day or 150 million phones a year. For a society so accustomed to consuming and discarding, ReCelluar is encouraging everyone to "Go Green" and recycle these retired cell phones.

Recycling or reusing cell phones has a significant benefit to environmental efforts. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, producing 150 million cell phones would consume enough energy to power 285,000 homes for a year, and produce more than 258 million kilograms of carbon emissions. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 150 million phones contains $94 million of precious metals not factoring the cost of recovery including gold, platinum, silver, palladium and copper.

AT&T will work with Cell Phones for Soldiers to drive recycling and reduce e-waste through the next year with a goal of doubling the number of cell phones the charity recycles by next Earth Day. CPFS collects and recycles mobile phones and uses the proceeds to buy free phone cards for U.S. military members and their families.

Since Earth Day 2007, CPFS has collected more than 900,000 cell phones for recycling. AT&T and CPFS have pledged to work together to help the charity collect more than 1.8 million devices by Earth Day 2009. AT&T currently supports the charity's recycling through more than 2,000 AT&T stores in more than 1,100 cities across the U.S. AT&T is expanding that support to include a network of more than 300,000 community volunteers, a national donation drive running through July 2008 and a new online starter kit for donations at www.att.com/recyclewireless.

Com-Cycle is excited to announce Volt Workforce Solutions is sponsoring Com-Cycle Electronics Recycling Events for Sacramento area and Orange County businesses and residents as part of their "Earth Day" support and their company-wide "Go-Green" initiative which encourages environmentally responsible recycling of unused and/or obsolete computers, cell phones, televisions and other electronic devices.

Volt's Com-Cycle Electronics Recycling Event encourages Sacramento area and Orange County businesses and residents to drop off their recyclable electronics, batteries and light bulbs between the hours of 9:00 am and 3:00 pm, on Tuesday, April 22nd at the following locations:

Just in time for spring, Wal-Mart announces a program to create rubber garden mulch from recycled tires, a step in the company's ongoing commitments to reaching its zero waste goal and providing access to affordable eco-friendly products. The Majestic rubber mulch mini nuggets hit Wal-Mart store and Sam's Club shelves this week, joining a variety of eco-friendly products already available for the spring season.

More than 2.5 million tires will be recycled by Wal-Mart in 2008 to manufacture the eco-friendly garden mulch that is ideal for landscaping and covering play grounds, pools and pond areas. The rubber mulch is available in red or black, is non-toxic and latex-free, inhibits weed growth and does not compact or blow away, making it a great alternative to traditional mulch for environmentally conscious gardeners.

Free and green. Those are the goals of a pilot program launched by the U.S. Postal Service that allows customers to recycle small electronics and inkjet cartridges by mailing them free of charge.

The "Mail Back" program helps consumers make more environmentally friendly choices, making it easier for customers to discard used or obsolete small electronics in an environmentally responsible way. Customers use free envelopes found in 1,500 Post Offices to mail back inkjet cartridges, PDAs, Blackberries, digital cameras, iPods and MP3 players - without having to pay for postage.

Postage is paid for by Clover Technologies Group, a nationally recognized company that recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics. If the electronic item or cartridges cannot be refurbished and resold, its component parts are reused to refurbish other items, or the parts are broken down further and the materials are recycled. Clover Technologies Group has a "zero waste to landfill" policy: it does everything it can to avoid contributing any materials to the nation's landfills.

One of the original two participating schools in the first RecycleMania contest in 2001, Miami is now competing with nearly 400 universities nationwide to see which school can recycle the most.

The goals of the 10-week competition include increasing recycling participation by students and staff and reducing waste generated on campus. Residence halls and dining facilities tend to produce 30 to 70 percent of campus trash, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise office, and up to half of all residence hall trash is recyclable.

In this webepisode you can watch Annabelle Gurwitch's recycling road trip. Annabelle decided to find out what kind of a journey recycling takes from dumpster to land field. You can watch her ride along in a garbage truck and dumpster dive in neighbor's recycling bins.

What items have you thrown away that haunt you to this day?

Electronic Recyclers International last Saturday teamed with legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg to help “green” his 22nd annual Super Bowl Party by setting up special collection areas for used electronics at the site of the event. The e-waste bins were available at the Desert Botanical Gardens for guests of the party as well as anyone from the community who wanted to discard their old laptops or cell phones for free. ERI reported more than 500 unwanted old laptops and more than 500 cell phones were collected at the party.

Ontarians are cashing in their empty alcohol containers for greener communities. Since the Bag It Back program launched a year ago, consumers are on track to return 65 per cent of their alcohol containers to The Beer Store for recycling.

The return rate for smaller bottles, plastic, Tetra-Paks and bag-in-box containers is still low at 48 per cent.

Under the Bag It Back program, customers pay a deposit when they purchase wine, spirits and beer. They then return the empty alcohol containers to The Beer Store for a full refund. Glass bottles, cans, plastic, Tetra Paks and bag-in-box containers are all eligible.

The Bag It Back program also reduces landfill waste and boosts the number of products that can be made from recycled material. Those products include bottles and cans, carpeting and fibreglass insulation.

ReCellular announces that the company has processed a record 6 million phones in 2007, solidifying the company’s position as the world’s foremost collector, refurbisher, and recycler of wireless phones.

In 2007, ReCellular:

• Employed 240 people at facilities in Michigan, Texas, Hong Kong, and Brazil
• Collected 6 million wireless phones for recycling or refurbishing
• Raised more than $20 million for charitable causes
• Diverted more than 1 million pounds of materials from landfills by recycling efforts