Recycling Avenue
...paving the road to recycling
Recycling Avenue would like to thank the following businesses in their support in helping to make our 2009 Walk~n~Roll Fundraiser a success:
Avenues to Independence
California Pizza Kitchen/Schaumburg
Starbucks on Golf Rd./ Schaumburg
F&F Management Team
Eggsperience / Long Grove
The Yard House / Glenview
Kerasotes Glen 10 Theaters
Pascal Pour Elle in Glenview
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★On average Americans replace their cell phones every 12-18 months.
Over 65 million cellular phones are stockpiled in U.S. households creating 30,000 tons of potentially hazardous waste.
By 2008, an estimated 130 million cellular phones will be discarded annually in the U.S. alone.
The cadmium from a single phone is capable of polluting 158,200 gallons of water. (That’s 2.4 million 8-ounce sodas!)
Help us keep the environment clean by donating items that daily fill our landfills with toxins. Just the chemicals in one cell phone can pollute up to 158,000 gallons of water. Recycling Avenue is a new company formed to save our environment by recycling retired, small electronic items. Recycling Avenue was started by and is run by a group of physically challenged young adults wanting to make a difference in their world.
Recycling Avenue services Avenues to Independence
Recycling Avenue services Avenues to Independence. Avenue to Independence is a non-profit, charitable organization, providing residential, vocational and daily living support in a wide variety of programs for adults with autism, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities.
http://www.avenuestoindependence.org/
Click on the link below to see an interview with Karen Meyer from ABC News on Recycling Avenue. Recycling Avenue truly appreciates the time Ms. Meyer took with us to help share our story.
