Former RadioShack chief launches cellphone recycling venture

Release Date 23 Mar, 2010 in Fort Worth Star Telegram

 
   

Sprint, RadioShack ex-CEOs go into phone recycling

Reuters - Yuriko Nakao, Sinead Carew - 23 Mar, 2010
Mobile phone key pads are piled up at Eco-system Recycling Co, a recycling plant, in Honjo, north of Tokyo March 28, 2008. LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former ...

Carriers Get Serious about Cellphone Recycling

Wired News - Priya Ganapati - 23 Mar, 2010
Consumers who want to get a new Nexus One or a HTC Hero don't have to throw away their existing phones. Instead they can trade their ...

Former RadioShack chief launches cellphone recycling venture

Fort Worth Star Telegram - Barry Shlachter - 23 Mar, 2010
David Edmondson, the disgraced former RadioShack chief executive, formally launched a cellphone recycling venture during a Las Vegas ...

Electronics industry veterans launch US phone recycling firm

Business Green - Cath Everett - 23 Mar, 2010
Two former electronics industry chief executives yesterday announced the launch of a venture committed to tackling America's burgeoning mountain of e-waste ...

eRecyclingCorps makes mobile phone e-waste a new business model

Tainted Green - Matt Jansen - 23 Mar, 2010
It's always encouraging to see new companies emerge with models to address new problems, and e-waste is a growing problem ...

Sprint and RadioShack ex-bosses venture into phone recycling

Recycle - Sarah Green - 23 Mar, 2010
The former bosses of Sprint Nextel and RadioShack have launched a new company targeted at fixing up or recycling an estimated 65000 tons of old cellular ...

Sprint Taps eRecyclingCorps for Device Buyback Program

Wireless Week - Maisie Ramsay - 23 Mar, 2010
Sprint has deployed a device buyback program that gives customers an instant account credit for trading in eligible ...

Electronic waste recycling company eRecyclingCorps launches in Dallas

Dallas Business Journal - Debbie Bolles - 23 Mar, 2010
A new Dallas-based company, eRecyclingCorps, launched in Dallas today and will target the market in recycling electronic waste. ...

Sprint to start accepting old phones for trade-in and recycle

Geek.com - John Brownlee - 23 Mar, 2010
The cellphone upgrade cycle is undeniably wasteful: perfectly good phones filled with hazardous materials flung haphazardly into landfills just to secure ...

Sprint and Radioshack ex-CEOs Launch New Cell Phone Recycling Company

Treehugger - Jaymi Heimbuch - 23 Mar, 2010
Americans buy around 140 million cell phones a year, replacing old phones an average of every 18 ...

New Company Launched during CTIA Meeting

Recycling Today - 23 Mar, 2010
Which material do you believe will grow most strongly in demand and value as a secondary commodity in the next five years? eRecyclingCorps hopes to handle ...

Former Sprint president starts cell phone recycling firm

Bizjournals.com - 23 Mar, 2010
Former Sprint Communications Inc. President Ron LeMay has co-founded a company that tries to reduce the number of old cell phones ending up in landfills. ...

Former RadioShack CEO in mobile phone recycling venture

Fort Worth Business Press - Elizabeth Bassett - 23 Mar, 2010
David Edmondson, former president and CEO of RadioShack, has cofounded and is serving as CEO of new Irving company, eRecyclingCorps, ...

Recycling Phones: An Emerging Trend for High-Tech CEOs

TMCnet - Marisa Torrieri - 23 Mar, 2010
If you ever wonder what landfill your very first brick of a cell phone ended up in, you're not alone. ...

Former Sprint, Radioshack CEOs Form Cell Phone Recycling Company

Inhabitat (blog) - Sarah Parsons - 23 Mar, 2010
It may shock you to learn that only 10 percent of America's 275 million cell phone users recycle their handsets. ...

New Cellphone Recycling Program Offers Instant Credit

LiveScience.com - Leslie Meredith - 23 Mar, 2010
Las Vegas - A new company called eRecyclingCorps today debuted the first mobile phone recycling program to ...

eRecyclingCorps Aims At Cell Phone Recycling

Texas Tech Pulse (blog) - 23 Mar, 2010
Dallas-based eRecyclingCorps, a new company headed by the previous CEO of RadioShack and former President and COO of Sprint, said today that it has launched ...

In Irving, Former Radio Shack and Sprint Bosses Want Your Old Cellphones. Now.

Dallas Observer (blog) - Robert Wilonsky - 23 Mar, 2010
​The wireless world's in Las Vegas at this very moment for the CTIA confab -- where, just this morning, ...

Former CEOs Launch eRecyclingCorps, a Massive Cell-Phone Recycling Project

Fast Company - Dan Nosowitz - 23 Mar, 2010
Ron LeMay, formerly of Sprint, and David Edmonson, of Radioshack, are the two founders of eRecyclingCorps, which was announced today ...

ex-Sprint and Radio Shack execs try to save the world with eRecyclingCorps

MobileCrunch (blog) - Dave Freeman - ‎Mar 22, 2010‎
65000 tons of mobile phone e-waste are generated every year. The bad news is, only 1% of consumers choose to recycle their ...

Wireless Industry Veterans Launch eRecyclingCorps to Tackle the 65000 Tons of ...

PR Newswire (press release) - ‎Mar 22, 2010‎
LAS VEGAS, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- /CTIA WIRELESS 2010/ -- Of the 4 billion wireless subscribers in the world, only 1 percent of them recycle their ...

 

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