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National Cell Phone Recycling Week has a popular mobile service provider participating for a good cause.

Verizon Wireless is joining with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), cell phone manufacturers and retailers to increase awareness about wireless phone recycling opportunities.

Verizon will have drop boxes in stores throughout the area and a free mailing label available on its Web site (www.verizonwireless.com/hopelinemailinglabel) to recycle old wireless phones, batteries and accessories.

Collected phones will be refurbished for resale and reuse or disposed of in an environmentally sound way under a zero landfill policy.

Phones given to Verizon Wireless go to HopeLine^®, the company’s long-running phone recycling and reuse program that supports local domestic violence prevention and awareness organizations.  

Proceeds from HopeLine support local victims of domestic violence and local non-profit advocacy agencies, including the Adelante shelter and the Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center.

Locations in Toledo include 6170 West Central Ave. #20, 5001 Monroe Street, 1260 South Reynolds Road, and one in Oregon.

Plug-In To eCycling’s National Cell Phone Recycling Week began Monday and ends April 11, 2010.  Customers can still donate their old phones year-round at Verizon locations.