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Your
Trash is Worth Cash
to a local charity!
Your
office trash can be worth thousands of pounds to
About with Friends - a local charity supporting
people with learning difficulties to have a social
life and develop their life and work skills.
Office
materials that normally end up in the bin - toner
and inkjet printer cartridges, and old mobile
phones - can be recycled to raise valuable funds
for About
with Friends.
If you’re guilty of throwing away used
printer cartridges and other recyclable office
materials, read on!
About
with Friends has
teamed up with leading recyclers at the Recycling
Appeal in an environmentally friendly fundraising
scheme. Every
time you donate a cartridge or old mobile phone to
the About
with Friends
Recycling
Appeal, they
will earn cash.
Alison
Mackway a Trustee with the group says:
“About
with Friends’
Recycling
Appeal is an easy way to help the
environment while supporting a great cause. Our organisation is
currently working to raise funds for additional
activity and
with your support, we are confident our Recycling
Appeal will be a great success.”
Not
only will your participation in the About
with Friends'
Recycling
Appeal raise the organisation much needed funds,
recycling allows you to make a positive impact on
the environment.
Rob
Morton of the Recycling Appeal says:
“Throwing
away old mobile phones and used printer cartridges
sends them to landfill sites where they become
part of our nation’s growing waste problem.
The vast majority of mobile phones contain
toxic substances, which can leak into the
surrounding soil and pollute it, and printer
cartridges take hundreds of years to biodegrade.
Why not use these products for something
good? Send
them to the About
with Friends
Recycling Appeal and they will be refurbished and
re-used. Some of the mobile phones even end up in
developing countries where little or no landline
infrastructure exists meaning your old mobile
could provide a lifeline for someone.”
So
put your old mobile phones, inkjet and toner
printer cartridges to one side.
About
with Friends are happy to collect or to send you a
freepost envelope.
It
won't cost you a penny but
will help the group no-end.
Please
call us on 01263 722547
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Facts.....
It
takes up to 1000 years for an ink cartridge to
decompose.
80%
of old mobile phones are currently dumped on the
rubbish heap.
In
just one year if all of the used ink cartridges in
the world were laid end to end they would be 129
times longer than the Great Wall of China.
23
million Mobiles Phones were bought in 2004
Almost
30% of all ink cartridges bought worldwide are
remanufactured.
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