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During 2007, American set aside an estimated 100 million cell phones: some of them broke, some of them just got old, and a bunch of them were simply set aside when a newer-and-cooler must-have phone came along. Of those 100 million phones, only about 10 percent were recycled, meaning the copper, metals, and plastics that could have been recovered from those handsets and used in other products is sitting unused in a drawer somewhere…or worse, leeching into ground water in a landfill somewhere.