How to recycle/dispose of cell phones

Curbside collection: No
County facilities accepting cell phones:
 Solid Waste Transfer Station - Hazardous Waste

• Cell Phone Data Eraser
• US EPA cell phone recycling information and outreach resources

Take your phone to a local collection site

Find the cell phone collection site nearest you

We accept cell phones at our Solid Waste Transfer Station, too. Bring them to our Hazardous Waste Receiving Area or the Adminstrative Office.

Donate your working phone for local emergency use

Mobile phones are equipped with a chip that allow calls to 911 or #77 (on state highways) even when they have no service connected to them. Thus, the phones continue to be useful even after you have disconnected your service.

Please donate your phone along with its battery and charging device.

• Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Victim Services/Abused Person's Program
  • Please call 240-777-4210 for directions; drop-off location is in Rockville
• Montgomery County Police Department Senior Cell Phone Program
  • To donate or receive a cell phone, call 301-840-2788
  • Senior Cell Phone Program details
• Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
  • Judicial Center, Room T-8
    50 Maryland Avenue
    Rockville, Maryland 20850
  • 240-777-7000 (staffed 24 hours/day

Participate in national recycling and donation options

Montgomery County does not endorse any of the following listings.

• AT&T
• Motorola
• Nokia
• Samsung
• Sprint
• T-Mobile
• Verizon
• Wireless Alliance

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This information last updated 8/19/2009.