Phone bloom.Flipswap, a cell phone trade-in company, prides itself in reducing electronic waste. But the Torrance Torrance, industrial and residential city (1990 pop. 133,107), Los Angeles co., SW Calif.; inc. 1921. It has large aircraft and electronics industries. Among its many manufactures are aircraft, electronics, communications equipment, aluminum products, steel, and company is taking its environmental commitment to the forest In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. - W. Collins. See also: Fore Fore . Beginning this month, Flipswap will plant a tree for every phone the company recycles through CarbonFund.org. By year's end, the organization plans to plant 25,000 trees in forests in Louisiana Louisiana (ləwē'zēăn`ə, l  ē'–), state in the S central United States. It is bounded by Mississippi, with the Mississippi R. and
Nicaragua.
About 5,000 wireless retailers use Flipswap's technology, which provides a an estimate of how much an old handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. is worth when a customer buys a new one. The retailers then issue store credit for the amount, and get a check back from Flipswap when they send in the old phone. Flipswap then sells the old phones to a secondary market abroad or recycles them. Staff reporter Booyeon Lee can be reached at blee@labusinessjournal.com or at (323) 549-5225, ext. 230. |
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