Mr. Seth Heine

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  Seth Heine
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  Seth Heine, president of CollectiveGood (www.collectivegood.com).

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  "We make recycling feel like consuming, which everyone likes to do," says RIPMobile President and CEO Seth Heine, who started the business in 2005.
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  Heine says that although metals can never be destroyed, they can be captured and reused infinitely.
  
  Heine started RIPMobile to draw attention to a type of waste that even those who consistently recycle tend to overlook.College students make up a large part of his market, as he says most students upgrade their cell phones annually."This is the quickest way to convert a drawer full of toxic waste into money for stuff you want," Heine says.

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  Our program provides a socially and environmentally responsible means of disposing of these unwanted phones, said Seth Heine, president of CollectiveGood International.
  
  Through the mobile phone recycling initiative, CARE and CollectiveGood have found a means of averting the potential environmental damage created by mobile phone disposal.Mobile phones contain toxic materials such as cadmium, lead, mercury and gallium arsenide.By collecting and then reselling these phones to CollectiveGood, CARE helps preserve the environment while using old phones to support sustainable agriculture and water systems as well as medical and educational programs in more than 60 countries worldwide.

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  That someone with little or no income is willing to dole out a not-so-small sum to pay to talk to people does not surprise Seth Heine, founder of the nonprofit CollectiveGood, which recycles used and discarded cellphones.
  
  He created CollectiveGood after a business trip to Brazil and Panama in 1999.While the family incomes in those countries averaged less than $4,000 a year, people were lining up to buy cellphones that started at $250.Both countries lacked a decent system of land lines, and the residents were looking for any means to stay in touch, he recalled.

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  That someone with little or no income is willing to dole out a not-so-small sum to pay to talk to people does not surprise Seth Heine, founder of the nonprofit CollectiveGood, which recycles used and discarded cellphones.
  
  He created CollectiveGood after a business trip to Brazil and Panama in 1999.While the family incomes in those countries averaged less than $4,000 a year, people were lining up to buy cellphones that started at $250.Both countries lacked a decent system of land lines, and the residents were looking for any means to stay in touch, he recalled.CollectiveGood now sells recycled phones in those countries for $25 or so.
  
  "The homeless person's paradigms are not much different," Heine said.

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  The chain of players is long and murky, and CollectiveGood President Seth Heine acknowledges that it's a "challenge for us to find out where the phones go."But he maintains that for the same price as a basic handset produced for developing markets by companies like Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp., consumers in those countries can buy a used American cell phone with more-advanced features.
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  Heine of CollectiveGood also runs a program that pays consumers for their old phones.
  
  "Our mission is to protect the environment," he said.

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  The chain of players is long and murky, and CollectiveGood President Seth Heine acknowledges that it's a "challenge for us to find out where the phones go."But he maintains that for the same price as a basic handset produced for developing markets by companies like Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) , consumers in those countries can buy a used American cell phone with more-advanced features.
  
  Chewed Up, Spat Out, Recycled
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  Heine of CollectiveGood also runs a program that pays consumers for their old phones.
  
  "Our mission is to protect the environment," he said.

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  Seth Heine, who founded the company Collective Good in 2000, recognized this early.
  
  Collective Good is a profitable business that, as the name suggests, Heine also sees as a vehicle for philanthropy.People send in their phones, and Collective Good sells the ones that still work into a global secondhand market.A portion of each phone's resale or scrap value goes to one of more than 500 causes â€" ranging from the Red Cross to the Humane Society to the Obama campaign â€" selected by the phone's donor.Used phones are sold to people overseas who can't afford new ones, and hazardous waste is kept out of landfills."It's a self-cleaning oven," Heine says.
  
  When I visited his office outside Atlanta a few months ago, Heine was introducing a new venture, GreenPhone.com, which pays donors directly for their phones.Mail a BlackBerry Pearl, for example, to GreenPhone, and Heine will cut you a check for $65.And because Heine still isn't entirely comfortable with all the paper consumption this entails, GreenPhone also plants a tree for every check it writes.
  
  Heine is 40, a whip-smart and mildly self-righteous environmentalist with an M.B.A. and a boyish love of sports cars.There's a lava lamp on his desk, but also, hanging behind it, a motivational poster that says VISION.Recently, he moved most of his operation to a larger facility in Colorado.But phones were still arriving at the small Georgia warehouse when I was there; they come in prepaid envelopes printed off the company's Web site or from collection boxes at every Staples and FedEx Kinko's in the United States.Each month, Heine receives 20,000 phones of at least 800 different makes and models.
  
  They were scattered around the room: silver ones, a battered flip-phone with a sticker of a wolf on it.A store in Beverly Hills had been sending boxes of gold-plated, limited-edition Dolce & Gabbana Motorola Razr phones, turned in when customers traded up for something even newer."That phone can't be more than six months old," Heine said at one point.Later, he handed an employee a Nokia with a note rubber-banded around it.It was something a friend gave him at dinner; that happens all the time, he said, "when you're the Fred Sanford of phones."
  
  Heine's business succeeds or fails based on how well it can assess and then realize the value of each phone."I refer to that as the pachinko machine," he told me. "You dump in a phone and it rattles around.
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  "A lot of people in the developing world will never own a new phone," Heine says.
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  Heine figures this means he is leaving $150,000 on the table each year, easily. (Several environmental groups I contacted, including BAN, singled out Heine for his integrity and seriousness about the environment.)
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  As Heine explains, even though what he sells will probably be thrown out eventually, if a phone gets three or four more lives, "it's absolutely better for the environment than having to make three or four more phones â€" phones that wouldn't be recycled, either."
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  Heine says he still receives phones in prepaid envelopes addressed to the Kentucky tobacco barn where he started Collective Good in 2000.

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  Author: Seth Heine
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  Seth Heine, president of CollectiveGood (www.collectivegood.com).

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  CollectiveGood does outreach work with K-12 education to spread the word about the cell phone donation program, but CSU is one of the first universities to get behind the cause, said Collective-Good's founder and CEO Seth Heine.
  
  But the Phones 4 Loan program is twofold.In addition to raising money for microfinance loans, it also saves the landfill from cell phones that contain toxic chemicals, such as mercury and lead.
  
  "It's a great double whammy," Heine said."(The students) are paying it forward, if you will."

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