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Recycle Cell Phones to Help Families Battling Cancer

Tom Coffman (formerly) with Deffenbaugh Industries Answers 15 Questions: Recycling, Sustainability, and Green

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Deffenbaugh Industries Partners with Cells for Cells

This interview with Tom Coffman, Former Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships with Deffenbaugh Industries, covers the topics of sustainability, recycling, green ideas, and the services that Deffenbaugh Industries and Deffenbaugh Recycling provide to the Midwest.

Total Reading time: 5:00 minutes.

1.  What are 4 things that anyone can do, right now, to be better at recycling?
Tom:   Eliminate plastic bags, eliminate plastic bags, eliminate plastic bags, and eliminate plastic bags from recycling containers. Plastic bags are a menace when they get to the recycling facility. They gum up our systems and they blow all over the place. Most grocery stores have containers for recyclable plastic bags.

say no to plastic bags

2.  What is exciting to you in the area of sustainability?
Tom:    I think the growing awareness, support and public interest around sustainability issues has been very heartening. Whether it is the food people eat, the homes they build and maintain or the way they handle their yard waste, you can see behaviors continue to move toward greater sustainability.

3.  What is your favorite innovation that you have been a part of at Deffenbaugh Indsutries?
Tom:    There are three innovations I’ve seen in the past 20 years at Deffenbaugh Industries that I think are particularly cool. The move toward automated collection for residential trash and recycling has been a great step forward, as has the implementation of a single-stream recycling system. And the fact that we collect and process approximately 15 million cubic feet of landfill gas per day, which is used to serve the equivalent of 5,000 homes daily, always impresses me. Continue Reading

How To Recycle My iPhone or iPad With Confidence

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The three most common question about recycling are:

  1. Is it safe to recycle my iPhone or iPad with Cells for Cells?
  2. Who is your charitable partner?
  3. What do I do with my iPhone or iPad to make it safe to recycle?

The short answers:

  1. Yes, it is safe to recycle your device with Cells for Cells.  Just like most recyclers, we are only interested in the value of the parts of the device.  (Remember that your iCloud lock makes it 100% impossible for ANY recycler to see any data, photos, emails, etc. on your device
  2. Our charitable partner is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society whom we support nationwide.  We’ve raised more than $40,000 for families battling cancer solely by recycling old and broken cell phones.
  3. It is easy to make your iPhone or iPad safe to recycle.  Follow the guide below and you will be able to recycle your iPhone or iPad (or any device) with confidence.

The longer answers:

 

How To Recycle Your iPhone or iPad With Confidence

Many of you want to do more than just recycle your old iPhone or iPads or old cells phones.  You are intelligent enough to realize that recycling with the big carriers doesn’t do much more than keep your electronic waste out of the landfill (and put money in THEIR pocket).

But you want to do more than just recycle because you hate cancer.

 

 

Cancer took my grandfather’s life.

This is me, my brother, and my grandfather.

I miss him.  I miss my grandfather.

I still can remember the way he would pat my hand when we would sit together and play cards – simply spending time together.

 

I started Cells for Cells to HELP families battling cancer.

I chose to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as the beneficiary of Cells for Cells because they have a fund that helps families pay for medical and other expenses.  Yes, research and research dollars are important; but helping a family pay for the medicine or get reimbursed for travel expenses is what Cells for Cells wants to help with.

Our family didn’t know about any resources, aid, help, or ANYTHING while my grandfather found out he had cancer and then died 3 short months later.

Cells for Cells supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society nationwide.  Learn more about the LLS Financial Support at https://www.lls.org/support/financial-support.

 

Now, what do I do with my iPhone or iPad to make it safe to recycle?

 

Driver Texting and Talking on Two Cell Phones While Driving Over 70 mph

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Texting Talking and Driving 1 These incredible pictures are of a man talking into his cell phone with his left hand while texting with his right hand while driving 70 mph on the highway.  Shame on you, driver!  You are a danger to society.

My friend, who was in the passenger seat of my car, took these pictures.  I was focused on passing this guy safely as he was swerving all over the highway.

All Distracted Driving Needs To Stop

Every day that I get into my car, I feel like I have to battle for my life.  Every day I see distracted drivers swerving or driving in a dangerous manner.  This has got to stop now.  Even my next door neighbor was a recent victim of distracted driving.  She was rear-ended by a driver who had dogs in his lap while eating a sandwich.  This dumb driver rear-ended my neighbor at a red light!

Please Take The Pledge To Never Text And Drive

Take the pledge.  Make that promise to yourself.  The website www.ItCanWait.com has a host of tools and resources to promote this idea.  ItCanWait.com seems to kids targeted to kids.  So if you have kids who are driving, you can point them to ItCanWait.com.  However, in my experience, it is adults that I see swerving while texting.  Gosh, can you just use your plain old common sense to keep that promise to yourself, to your family, to your friends, and to your fellow drivers.  Just stop texting and driving.

Just Wait Or Pull Over

If you absolutely need to see that text message (Come on!  Is that text really THAT important?) just pull over.  Safely pull to the side of the road and jump all over that important text.  Better yet, wait until you are done driving and put your car in park, then check your messages.  That way, you won’t have any chance of causing an accident from your distracted driving.

Lives Destroyed By Texting And Driving

This 34 minute movie by the famed film producer Werner Herzog is a must see.  You may not be aware of the devastating consequences of the simple act of texting while driving.