• Determine how the troop will use the funds
  • Trips
  • Uniforms
  • Equipment
  • Trophies
  • Troop recognition awards
• Create dates for cell phone/pda and inkjet collection drive — 4-6 week period
• Be sure to include below environmental statistics in all communications
  • One cell phone can contaminate 35,000 gallons of water (enough to provide water for 153 people for one year)
  • Cell phones and their batteries contain eight toxic substances, including arsenic, lead and mercury
  • We’ve already retired more than 500 million cell phones alone
  • Each month, an additional ten million cell phones are retired
  • Almost all inkjet cartridges can be recycled
• Determine amount of money to be raised
  • Average cell phone will generate $3.00
  • PDA’s average $10 each
  • Inkjet cartridges average $0.50 each
• Set up collection boxes
  • At parents place of employment
  • Grocery stores
  • Libraries
  • Banks
• Have each troop member’s family Facebook/email all friends and family to contribute their used cell phones to the troop’s fundraiser
• If your scouts go to others schools where they may serve as mentors, ask the students to collect phones on their behalf for the team
• Put an article in your local newspaper, community enewsletters/correspondence about your fundraiser
• When selling Girl Scout Cookies, ask if when scouts deliver the cookies if they can pick up their used cell phones/pda’s and inkjet cartridges
• Establish a collection/shipping leadto handle sending in the items who:
  • Secures mailing labels and sufficient shipping box
  • Is sure to tape boxes securely for safe shipping
  • Reviews the Smart Shipping segment on the website
  • Ships when the troop has collected at least 20 cell phones/PDA’s and inkjet cartridges

NOTE: The average household has 3-5 used cell phones in drawers. Be sure to ask your neighbors on both sides to triple your household’s contribution to the recycling/fundraising effort!