A few months back I had a cell phone to recycle and despite having heard about some ways to accomplish it, I had forgotten most of them, and was struggling. A few people at work suggested some things and I ultimately mailed it off to a recycling place free of charge.
Then last week I had the emissions tested on my car and there was a phone recycling center there. Yesterday, I saw Whole Foods now allows you to recycle them there, too.
Too late for the most recent phone, but at least now I can recycle that rechargeable battery pack from my now-defunct home phone. Whole Foods takes those, too! That gets one more piece of junk off my office desk!
The recycling boxes are just outside the rest rooms adjacent to the checkout lanes and the lunch area.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.