How about I take a phone from the recycling bins at target?
That's weird. Why do you want to take a phone from the recycling bins at target?
I'm not sure why.
Taking a phone from the bins is stealing, even if the bins they're in are for recycling. Stealing is morally wrong and the phone were placed there for a specific reason. You should leave them alone.
What is stealing about it, it's a phone no one cares about and it's a good target.
Because those phones do not belong to you, they now belong to target. So taking them is stealing for target and you could be in serious trouble.