Your Carbon Footprint
Yesterday, while I was answering a cell phone call, to my horror, the phone broke in my hand. I went to my cell phone provider and purchased a replacement, but what to do with my now broken phone. I jumped on the web to try to find a company or facility that would take my cell phone to be recycled. What I found was a company that offered that and more. What I found was TerraPass.
TerraPass is a company that helps to fight global warming by offering ways to help you reduce your carbon dioxide emissions created in your day to day activities. We all have what is called a carbon footprint, which is basically the amount of carbon dioxide we leave behind us after our car trip to the store, our flight to Vegas, or the electricity used to blow dry our hair. It’s our mark.
TerraPass helps to offset your carbon footprint by purchasing and investing in forms of renewable energy, such as wind power. Right on their website there is a calculator where you can enter your car make, year and the amount of miles that you drive per year, and it will show you your carbon dioxide emissions for a year. They will also display how much it would cost you to counterbalance it with renewable energy, which all things considered, is pretty affordable.
What I found on this site was a way to recycle my broken cell phone, and in turn, receive credits toward offsetting my carbon footprint. TerraPass will take just about any old or broken cellphone, and recycle almost every last piece of it. It’s a win win situation. I can only hope that more people take a look at what they are leaving behind in their footprint, and take steps in the fight against global warming.