subject: How to Raise Over £1000 When You Recycle Printer Cartridges [print this page] How to Raise Over 1000 When You Recycle Printer Cartridges
The extensive utilisation and comparatively low price of desktop printers has formed a flood of empty printer cartridges. Almost 90% of all UK homes have a printer attached to their PC out of the 24 million homes that have a computer. Each inkjet or laser cartridge ultimately gets empty and desires to be substituted, leaving you to toss the used printer cartridge in the waste bin.
By tossing your empty cartridges in the bin you are wasting cash lots of cash - which could be going to good causes, including your own wallet.
And what about the inkjet and laser printers used every day in all the office buildings and schools across the country?
Many of these businesses and schools already have a cartridge recycling program in position and get paid from 25p to over 12 for each printer cartridge when they recycle printer cartridges.
Get Paid to Recycle
Over 55 million printer cartridges fill the UK landfills each year. That means if everybody in the UK recycle printer cartridges and got paid an average of 50p, consumers could claim a share of around 27.5 million through recycling their inkjet and toner cartridges.
Simple fundraising for schools and charities
Many Schools and Charities see inkjet and toner cartridge recycling as a comparatively easy way of fundraising. One latest research revealed that a typical school can use 300 printer cartridges per year. So say this school got paid an average of 1.50 when they recycle printer cartridges, they could then raise 450 just from their own school's office printers.
An SME can use between 75 and 200 printer cartridges per year, or even more. So let's say the school fundraising team manages to persuade 10 local businesses to recycle printer cartridges, they can look forward to about 100 x 10 = 1000 cartridges, which at an average of 1.50 would raise funds of 1500. That takes the total amount raised to 1950 when they recycle printer cartridges.
This calculation, of course, does not include all the empty inkjet and toner cartridges parents could be donating to recycle. But it's still a pretty significant sum and one that any PTA or charity would be happy to accept.
