Ringing the changes for a better world ; Eazyfone buys and recycles old mobile phones collected by charities, hospitals and schools, and sells them on cheaply in the developing world. Pete Petrondas explains how he developed a successful strategy

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: November 26, 2006| Author: Kate Hilpern | Copyright information

With more and more of us developing a green conscience, it was only ever going to be a matter of time before businesses started making big money out of it. For Pete Petrondas, 29, the potential for him only became obvious when he'd started up a business in what might seem one of the most environmentally unfriendly industries there is - mobile phones.

Indeed, Eazyfone began as a distributor and dealer of mobile phones in 2001. But it wasn't long before Petrondas started to recog- nise ...