Verizon Wireless is encouraging people with cell phones they are ready to toss to instead turn it over to HopeLine. Hope Line is a program the company launched that turns the discarded devices into cash that helps stop domestic abuse.
HopeLine gathers cell phones in any condition any from any provider. Phones that are still in good working order are refurbished and resold. Those phones to damaged or too old for resale are taken apart and recycled.
All the profit created from recycling the recoverable materials becomes a cash gift to HopeLine. The program also donates the profits from resales and recycling to programs which feature domestic-violence prevention and awareness.
Verizon Wireless estimates it has collected more than 4 million phones and awarded about $4 million in cash grants to agencies across the U.S. trying to stop domestic violence. It started HopeLine in 2001.
The company is again placing an emphasis on HopeLine to generate awareness among people who received new phones during the holidays and are not sure what to do with their old ones.
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