Rosemont Floral - Portland, ME

We are pleased to announce that we have become a drop off center for the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. You can now bring your old cell phone and accessories into our store where they are collected and forwarded to a recycler.



Customers bringing cell phones to our store for recycling will receive a free flower as a token of our appreciation. In addition, we'd like to encourage our fellow florists and other businesses to become a drop off center for this program. To learn more about the program or becoming a drop off center visit the Cell Phones for Soldiers website.

From the Cell Phones for Soldiers site:
Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2007. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 15,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the country.

The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone - on average, each phone represents 60 minutes of talk time for our troops. 

“Americans will replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year,” says Mike Newman, vice president of ReCellular, “with the majority of phones either discarded or stuffed in a drawer.  Most people don’t realize that the small sacrifice of donating their unwanted phones can have a tremendous benefit for a worthy cause like Cell Phones for Soldiers.”

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit organization has raised almost $1 million in donations and distributed more than 400,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.

“Cell Phones for Soldiers started as a small way to show our family’s appreciation for the men and women who have sacrificed the day-to-day contact with their own families to serve in the U.S. armed forces,” says the teens’ father, Bob Bergquist. “Over the past few years, we have been overwhelmed by the generosity of others. But, we have also seen the need to support our troops continue to grow as more troops are sent overseas for longer assignments.”

Through increased fundraising efforts, the Bergquist family hopes to raise more than $9 million in the next five years to fund new programs, such as providing video phones with prepaid service to allow soldiers abroad to see their families on a regular basis.

Before bringing your cell phone to us you should be sure to remove the data with the Cell Phone Data Eraser.