# Cash for used mobiles company supports ChildLine

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/03/21/cash-used-mobiles-company-supports-childline/
- Published: 2005-03-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Mopay, the online consumer service that offers cash for secondhand mobile phone 
handsets, will donate 10% of the sale price of each phone it recyles to ChildLine.

Mopay buys secondhand mobile phones, assesses their condition based on four categories,
and then sends the contributor a cheque within 14 days.

Phone owners can receive an online quote from Mopay by indicating their phone’s 
make, model and condition. For example, a Nokia 6310i in good condition will fetch
around £40. Then then post it in a cushioned envelope to Freepost Mopay and, once
it has been quality checked, Mopay then send out their cheque within a fortnight.

Mopay has chosen ChildLine as its charity of the year, and says that the sale of
six phones could assist in the counselling of a child.

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In the UK alone, 15 million handsets are discarded every year, with millions

more left in a drawer and forgotten. Fewer than 10% are recycled.

Mopay recycles the handsets and refurbishes them for resale to telecoms companies
in the developing world, using “an environmentally friendly process.”

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