subject: Recycle Franking Machine Cartridges: How to Earn Money While Going Green Through Recycling [print this page] Recycle Franking Machine Cartridges: How to Earn Money While Going Green Through Recycling
Recycling is one of the most vital methods to lessen your carbon footprint and provides you a sense of being green. Particularly, recycling the electrical goods or devices helps you leave a long-term impact while being kind to the planet earth.
Here are some useful and interesting facts about electrical goods recycling in the UK:
Electrical items are the most rapidly rising waste flow in the UK, growing by 5% each year
75% of waste electronics end up in landfill sites
In the life span of 1 UK citizen 3.3 tonnes of waste electronics is produced!
In the UK the quantity of electrical waste we produce in one year would fill the new Wembley Stadium 6 times over!
150 Thousand Double-Decker buses worth of electrical and electronic waste is thrown away in the UK each year.
36,000,000 worth of aluminium is dumped each year.
15 Million Mobile phones are upgraded in the UK each year, laid from end-to-end they would reach from John O'Groats to Lands End!
Present UK recycling is estimated to save more than 18 million tonnes of CO2 every year.
Incinerating 10,000 tonnes of waste creates one job. Land-filling the same amount creates six jobs but recycling it creates 36!
Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill around 1,000,000 sea living things every year.
Over 55 million printer cartridges go into UK landfills each year. That means if everyone in the UK recycle printer cartridges and get paid an average of 50p, consumers could claim a share of around 27.5 million through recycling their inkjet and toner cartridges alone.
Empty franking machine cartridges have a major share of the printer cartridges that go to the landfills every year. Therefore, recycling franking machine cartridges means you can not only help save the environment but also earn some money. There are some companies in the UK that pay the customers money when they recycle franking machine cartridges. They also arrange free pick-up to collect your empty franking machine cartridges. Even if your cartridges are not worth any money, they happily recycle them for free.
The present hard economic times call for us to not only save the environment by dropping our carbon footprint but also make some money by selling our old electrical possessions.
