{"id":19611,"date":"2010-07-15T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=19611"},"modified":"2010-07-15T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:00:05","slug":"picking-up-the-new-droid-x-why-not-drop-off-your-old-cell-phone-for-recycling-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/picking-up-the-new-droid-x-why-not-drop-off-your-old-cell-phone-for-recycling-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Up The New DROID X? Why Not Drop Off Your Old Cell Phone For Recycling, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eager to get your hands on the new DROID X by Motorola, but wondering what to do with your old device?&#160; Verizon Wireless offers an easy solution that you can feel good about.&#160; With Verizon Wireless\u2019 HopeLine<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> cell phone recycling and refurbishing program, you can simply drop off or mail in your old wireless phone and, at the same time, help victims of domestic violence. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple to donate old phones to HopeLine.&#160; Customers can drop their old phones in the HopeLine bin at their local Verizon Wireless Communications Stores.&#160; Those upgrading online can donate by downloading the postage-paid mailing label available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/hopelinemailinglabel\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/hopelinemailinglabel', 'www.verizonwireless.com\/hopelinemailinglabel']);\" >www.verizonwireless.com\/hopelinemailinglabel<\/a>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Since the October 2001 launch of the HopeLine cell phone recycling program, Verizon Wireless has collected more than 7 million phones.&#160; Phones donated to HopeLine that can be refurbished are sold for reuse, and those without value are recycled in an environmentally sound way under a zero landfill policy.&#160; HopeLine has distributed more than 90,000 phones with free wireless service to victims of domestic violence and awarded cash grants of more than $7.9 million to organizations working to prevent domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon Wireless encourages customers who donate phones to HopeLine to erase any personal data on their phones before donation, and if in doubt, leave it to the professionals.&#160; As part of the refurbishing process:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Verizon Wireless\u2019 recycling vendor scrubs the phone of all personal data prior to distributing it for re-use.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 The donated phone is hooked up to a special data erasure service, which removes all personal information from devices in compliance with new information privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Devices are reset to factory settings, so phone numbers, messages, games and images are removed.<\/p>\n<p>Customers upgrading to one of Verizon Wireless\u2019 exciting new 3G smartphones, such as DROID X by Motorola or the BlackBerry\u00ae Bold\u2122 9650 smartphone, should remember that it\u2019s easy to recycle their old cell phones and help a worthy community cause in the process.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>For additional information on Verizon Wireless\u2019 HopeLine program and store locations, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/hopeline\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/hopeline', 'www.verizonwireless.com\/hopeline']);\" >www.verizonwireless.com\/hopeline<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eager to get your hands on the new DROID X by Motorola, but wondering what to do with your old device?&#160; Verizon Wireless offers an easy solution that you can feel good about.&#160; With&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[2609,3743,2608,3852],"class_list":["post-19611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-blackberry","tag-droid-x","tag-verizon","tag-verizon-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}