Help the environment and recycle your old cartridges

When your printer informs you that your printer ink cartridge is empty, that should not be the end of that cartridges life . As with many items discarded nowadays, they can be recycled and reused.

Each UK household produces over  a tonne  of rubbish every 12 months , amounting to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year.

Every year, the average wastebin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television.

If all the aluminium drinks cans sold in the UK were recycled , there would be 14 million fewer full  rubbish bins  per year. The total amount of municipal waste has increased to an estimated 29.7 million tonnes in England in 2004/05 compared to 29.1 million tonnes in 2003/04, an increase of 2.1 per cent.  Those figures would be dwarfed by comparison in 2010  .

A lot of companies buy Most Empty Printer Ink Cartridges

Of some 60 million inkjet cartridges used each year in the UK, only about  ten percent  are recycled. This means that 57 million cartridges  are  thrown away each year and end up in landfill sites or are incinerated. Inkjet cartridges will take about 1,000 years to rot in landfill sites.

 Sending cartridges to landfill also costs money because of the landfill tax passed on to consumers through council tax or companies’ waste collection costs. 

The following companies (some you will of heard of), will recycle your old ink cartridges and give you or a charity some well needed cash.

Recycle your used ink cartridges with Boot’s the chemist and you will receive 100 Advantage Card points for each inkjet cartridge that is eligible Boot’s will  donate 20p to charity.  They also recycle mobile phones, digital cameras etc.

just visit http://www.bootsrecycle.com/consumer/recyclecartridges.asp .

The following websites all give cash for the ink cartridges you send them. Visit the websites to see which cartridges are eligible and how much they will pay.

www.cashforcartridges.co.uk

www.cartridges4charity.co.uk

www.emptycartridge.co.uk

 www.gtrecycling.com 

Finally, Tesco’s will give you clubcard points or donate to their chosen charity, see below for details.

Tesco will give you 100 green Clubcard points for each one you recycle or you can opt to donate up to £1 to CLIC Sargent – our Charity of the Year. Asan alternative, you can receive 50 points and donate 50p to CLIC Sargent.

Just visit, http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/greener_tesco/ink_cartridge_recycling.page

So, please don’t ignore the issue, after all, you can earn a little cash, which is not to be sniffed at in these days of hardship.