Toner Cartridge Recycling Boosts Local Charity Fund-Raising

Jan. 10, 2011 - PRLog -- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK -- Toner cartridge recycling has been adopted by many large charities for fund-raising in the past couple of years. But for small, local charities it can be tricky setting up schemes that earn enough money. One exception to that is GreenTech, a toner cartridge recycling company in the UK, which has paid more than £50,000 to charities in 2010.

The top three charities that received donation this year so far by using GreenTech’s toner cartridge recycling services are based in Surrey (£18350), Norfolk (£14431), and Warwickshire (£12607).

Revealing their future plans, GreenTech CEO, Sohail Sethi said “We are soon launching our new and enhanced recycling website that will include an option for the recyclers to donate some or the entire amount they can earn from toner cartridge recycling directly to a charity of their own choice.”

Charities are always looking for relatively simple ways of fund-raising and toner cartridge recycling can be one of them. In order to increase their funds for philanthropic purposes, charitable organisations encourage their donors to recycle toner cartridges instead of donating cash. This not only helps them raise more funds but is part of good environmental practice.

The inkjet and toner cartridge recycling and remanufacturing industry gave a boom to fund-raising activities in the past few years as most of the schools and colleges in the UK are currently using toner cartridge recycling to augment their funds. According to a recent study, a small business can use 75 to 200 cartridges per year. By persuading 10 small businesses -- which can use up to 100 cartridges per year -- to donate their empty toner cartridge, a charity can raise up to £1500, at an average of £1.50 earned per used cartridge.

GreenTech also help charities set up a cartridge recycling program for easy fund-raising. They can simply add a web link (http://www.gtrecycling.com/recycle) on their site and ask their supporters to donate rather than receive the monies they receive for recycling toner cartridges. GreenTech pay up to £12 for each empty toner cartridge and promise to send a cheque within 5 days of receiving the cartridges. For more details about GreenTech’s toner cartridge recycling program you can visit their recycling website. (http://www.gtrecycling.com/recycle)

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GreenTech (http://www.gtrecycling.com/) have been recycling and remanufacturing laser, inkjet, fax and photocopier cartridges for the last 10 years at their facility in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. They have recently expanded into a new recycling facility. With 400% more space means they can recycle printer cartridges even more and can store more stock. Over the years, estimate to have saved the equivalent of 5 million litres of oil or 147 football pitches worth of waste printer cartridges. GreenTech have helped hundreds of businesses, schools, charities and individuals to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds when they recycle printer cartridges.