Cell Phone Recycling Week

It's Cell Phone Recycling Week! Woo hoo! Raise your phones in the air like you just don't care.

Funny stuff aside (you were laughing, come on, admit it) the EPA estimates there are at least 100 million cell phones that are no longer being used. Let's keep them out of the landfills and perhaps even make them available to others who aren't slaves to technology.

According to the press release, national retailers like AT&T and Verizon are participating in promotions and hoopla to get you to come to their store with your old, even broken, phones. But here's another idea -- Google the word "cell phone recycling" and up shall pop listings for a wide variety of charities that recycle phones for good causes. You'll get a tax write-off or just a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart going this route.

Wells Poll on Greening Small Businesses

A recent Wells Fargo/Gallup poll of small business owners focused partially on sustainability and found that while 90% of respondents had a personal commitment to green practices, they were much slower to commit their companies to those same practices. For the answers to all 11 poll questions, read this document