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As most of us know, old cell phones cannot be trashed and should be recycled.
I was looking for something for work and came across this.

911 Cell Phone Bank

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Originally Posted by site

In May of 2004, the 911 Cell Phone Bank was created to provide an ongoing and readily available source of 911 cell phones and funds to meet unexpected and urgent needs of participating law enforcement and affiliated victims services agencies.

Since then the 911 Cell Phone Bank has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars and provided thousands of cell phones for victims services organizations nationwide. We have successfully relieved the operational burden of managing a 911 cell phone program from our participants.

I donated my last few to battered womens shelters. I feel kind of bad about that as not one of them was worth the energy it'd take to toss it off a pier.

Thanks for the note BTD.

FWIW: a phone that is not currently enabled on a service provider can still be used to make 911 calls (assuming the phone is in working order). I am not sure how far back this would work (how old of a phone this applies on), but it is worth knowing.

yup. just like you can call 911 on a pay phone sans coinage (at least that used to be true)