Use It Up, Wear It Out

摘要

Charles newman gets deliveries at his Dexter, Mich. recycling factory, up to 10 tons each weekday. He's counted a fish tank, a rotisserie grill, a rum cake, a gilded bra and a Forrest Gump videotape among his "gifts." But the real goodies are cell phones, and he gets 10,000 to 15,000 of these daily. His company, ReCellular, buys used phones for a few bucks each from wireless carriers, banks, retailers and fundraisers. It resells them—after sprucing up some of them—to dealers, distributors and carriers, and recycles the hopeless cases.