Homeworkers and small businesses can help by donating their empty inkjet cartridges to Action Aid.
The overseas development charity ActionAid is asking home workers and small businesses to save up their empty inkjet cartridges to help them raise money.
ActionAid’s National Recycling Unit provides freepost envelopes for inkjet cartridges to be returned in, and provides a free collection service of the larger cartridges from laser printers, fax machines and photocopiers. The cartridges are then sold on to remanufacturers, and the profits are used to fund the charity’s overseas work providing emergency aid (currently in Mozambique), and long term projects.
Geoff Perriman, the NRU Manager said: “Donating empty toner cartridges is a great way to for individuals and small businesses to donate to charity – they can do their bit for the environment in the UK, and help some of the world’s poorest communities at the same time. Individuals can help us to raise funds and ultimately save lives by giving us what is often classed as “rubbish” and simply thrown away.”
Anyone who is interested in ActionAid’s recycling scheme should call the cartridge hotline on: 0117-929-8818 or e-mail: nru@actionaid.org.uk
Each cartridge can raise up to £14.00 to help ActionAid’s work. As a rough guide:
- £2.50 could provide school notebooks and pencils for one child in Pakistan.
- £5.00 could provide tools for a farmer in Ghana.
- £9.00 could provide clean water for one person in Mozambique.
- £15.00 could purchase a season’s planting seeds for 2 families in Burundi.
