Withthe iPAY gateway, Planet Payment also offers comprehensive Internet processingsolutions for credit card and electronic check payments. * Planet Payment is headquartered in New York and has offices in Atlanta,Beijing, Bermuda, New Castle Delaware, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai andSingapore.The Bancorp BankAndres Viroslav, orPlanet Payment, Inc.Joel Mayer, 516-670-3200, Inc. (US PR for Planet Payment)Brian Prenoveau/Ashley Ammon203-682-8200orRedleaf Communications (UK PR for Planet Payment)Emma Kane/Samantha Robbins/Rebecca Sanders-Hewett/Henry Columbine+44 20 7566 Copyright Business Wire 2009. Portion of the Program`s Proceeds to be Donated to Rebuilding TogetherSAN DIEGO–(Business Wire)–Americans discard approximately 130 million cell phones, less than five percentof which are recycled, totaling about 65,000 tons of waste annually.
On thisEarth Day 2009, Cricket Communications, Inc, a leading provider of unlimitedwireless services, begins a nation-wide handset recycling program. Customers candrop off their unused phones at participating Cricket stores or print apostage-paid shipping label from Cricket`s website () andsend their phones to the recycling center. “A typical phone contains materials like arsenic, zinc and lead, thereforethrowing out old cell phones is not only wasteful, it`s dangerous. Thesematerials can seep into groundwater or even end up in the air we breathe,” saidTim Ostrowski, vice president for Cricket who is leading the company`senvironmental efforts. “We at Cricket feel a responsibility to do what we can tohelp protect our environment and our communities.
By making this recyclingprogram simple and convenient we hope customers will partner with Cricket to dosomething good for the environment and help raise funds for RebuildingTogether.” A portion of the proceeds from the program will be donated to RebuildingTogether, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordablehomeownership and revitalize communities. Cricket has partnered with RebuildingTogether as a President`s Circle level national sponsor for 2009. Together theyare focusing on issues of safety and homeownership among the elderly, thedisabled, families with children and those impacted by the rising cost of livingand falling social service budgets. Cricket`s recycling program will be facilitated in conjunction with ReCellularInc., a leading collector, reseller and recycler of used wireless handsets andaccessories. Approximately 50 percent of the cell phones collected by ReCellularare refurbished to near-new condition or otherwise processed for resale. Rebuiltphones are packaged and marketed to users in developing nations of the worldwhere new phones are cost-prohibitive. Products that cannot be rebuilt aredisassembled and responsibly recycled.