Now you can recycle your mobile phones, pagers or PDAs through Earth Share of New York's partnership with the CollectiveGood Mobile Phone Recyling Program! It's free, easy to use, and you will be helping to support a healthier environment. Depending upon the phone model, a fixed amount per phone will be donated to ESNY.

CollectiveGood ensures that your mobile devices are recycled in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Just follow these three easy steps:

However you choose to help, Earth Share of New York thanks you for your support.

Success Stories!

Thanks to the direct efforts of Earth Share of New York and its member organizations, we enjoy a better quality of life in New York and across the country. Less pollution means fewer diseases and healthier crops; better forest management means less erosion and flooding; recycling programs mean fewer landfills and less groundwater contamination; and more education leads to the development of better environmental habits. We couldn't have done it without you! Here are just a few ways that your support has helped to make a difference:

• The 68 organizations that make up New York's Land Trust Alliance are protecting 345,000 acres of wetlands, wildlife habitats, scenic areas, farmland, forests, watersheds and urban gardens.

• At the urging of Environmental Defense, the New York Thruway Authority is studying instituting demand-based tolls that offer incentives to avoid rush-hour travel.

• The National Audubon Society initiated an historic agreement between the states of New York and Connecticut, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to clean up Long Island Sound.

• The Trust for Public Land and the Open Space Institute conveyed 15, 800 acres of Sterling Forest to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. The acreage, 35 miles northwest of New York City, links about 100,000 acres of New York parkland with parkland in New Jersey, creating a 150,000-acre block of recreation land within a short drive for 26 million people.

• Nine Hudson Valley counties are included in a New York-New England area that is ranked the 10th most endangered agricultural area in the country, according to American Farmland Trust's "Farming on the Edge." The counties are Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Washington and Westchester.

• Scenic America provided technical assistance and expertise for the efforts of the Whipstock Hill Preservation Society to strengthen a sign ordinance and work toward a "Scenic Byways" designation.

• The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy opened and maintains 52 trails in the state of New York, offering residents 480 miles of hiking, biking, horseback riding and outdoor enjoyment.

• Working with the state government and other organizations, members of Defenders of Wildlife are selecting and evaluating sites for the publication of a New York State wildlife-viewing guide.

• The Conservation Fund has negotiated the purchase of three tracts totaling 143,000 acres in and near Adirondack Park. Most of the land will be protected under conservation easements, yet remain working forests to maintain the region's economy.

• Thanks largely to the efforts of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Bronx Community Paper Company is working with Kruger, an international paper company based in Montreal, Quebec, to build a recycling facility. The facility, the first of its kind in the United States, will enable the production of high-grade paper from post-consumer paper waste.

• American Rivers listed the Hudson as one the "Ten Most Endangered Rivers" because of extensive PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) in its upper reaches.

• The Nature Conservancy protects more than 330,000 acres in seven regions in the state of New York.

• The Surfrider Foundation has helped restore dunes along the Long Island Shoreline and implemented the Blue Water Task Force to test coastal waters off Long Island. The foundation also spearheaded a successful effort to increase beach access to Robert Moses State Park.