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10 February 2026
ecoATM recycled 7.5M phones in 2025 as payouts hit $1.5B
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Used-cellphone recycling kiosk network ecoATM collected around 7.5 million consumer devices in 2025, pushing its lifetime collected volumes past 50 million phones and other handheld electronics. Melissa Ziegler, ecoATM’s vice president of marketing, said the company’s cumulative payouts to consumers have reached about $1.5 billion since it began operating about 15 years ago. “We did […] The post ecoATM recycled 7.5M phones in 2025 as payouts hit $1.5B appeared first on Resource Recycling
Key Takeaways
- • ecoATM recycled 7.5M phones in 2025 as payouts hit $1.5B.
