Trash for Cash

        Whenever anyone has an electronic they don't want to use anymore, they toss it in the trash and just go buy a new one without even thinking that their trash could make some easy profit. Recently there has been buzz about how used, old electronics can been recycled to benefit the enviorment and their wallets. Ebay and Amazon are best known for selling used items for cheaper prices. If a phone or computer is in decent condition and still works, it'd be a smarter idea to put the items on the market for sale. Someone looking for a cheap phone could greatly benefit from something that you don't care to own anymore. Companies like Capstone Wireless and Gazelle take used cell phones if they turn on and have a decent LCD display on the screen. Even Apple is willing to offer gift cards in exchange for used computers. Another way to get rid of old electronics is to donate them. ReCellular is company that sells as many used phones as they can and recycle the rest so it be a good idea to just hand over used and unwanted electronics here. Best Buy takes back most electronics and even resells them. There's companies like Call2Recycle, which pick up used and old electronics from chains like Best Buy or Radio Shack.
My view:        
Helping the enviorment and making some extra cash are two of the many goals people these days try to accomplish. These days, people are taking are more productive approach to handling items that we don't use anymore, items that are out of style, broken, or have been replaced by a newer, better item. Usually when people have an old cell phone, they just toss it into the trash without thinking that they could profit from this item. Instead of throwing it away, companies like Ebay and Capstone Wireless are environmentally savvy and generous enough to give us a chance to make some sort of profit. In reading this article, it clear the Yahoo.com put the names of these companies in their article as a way to advertise their purposes and make them more popular and known to people. By advertising these companies and using their names on its website, Yahoo! receives some sort of payment for allowing these companies to be mentioned in its article. At the same time, these companies are also benefitting because they are getting more customers due to increased popularity.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/113467/dont-bury-electronic-trash-kiplinger