Trade-in to trade-up

With the Verizon Device Trade-In program, upgrade your old devices to get money towards a new one.

With mobile technology seemingly changing at the speed of light, it can be hard to keep up with the latest devices. But the Verizon Device Trade-In program makes it a little easier to upgrade to the next big thing. You may be eligible for a Verizon Wireless gift card in return for your old device, no matter what carrier it came from.

Help keep the world a greener place.

“The Device Trade-In program supports Verizon Wireless’ efforts as a green company,” says Wei-Ching Lin, Senior Manager–Logistics at Verizon Wireless. Devices collected through the program are either repurposed or recycled. “We can extend the life of more than 85 percent of the devices through our renew or reuse programs,” Lin adds. Any remaining devices are harvested for usable parts; what can’t be reused is recycled in an environmentally friendly and safe manner. The goal is to keep all of the devices out of landfills.

Since the program began in fall 2010 with online trade-ins (the in-store program was added in February 2012), more than 3.1 million trades have been made, including phones, tablets, netbooks and other wireless broadband devices such as jetpacks. That means over 420 tons of e-waste was kept out of landfills. That’s the equivalent of keeping 233 passenger vehicles off the road for one year or of eliminating CO2 emissions from 133,000 gallons of consumed gas.