Christian Aid has teamed up with Environmental Business Products (EPB) to raise £12, 000 over the next 12 months for developing countries by recycling printer cartridges. For every recyclable printer cartridge EPB receives, it will donate £1 to Christian Aid.
Around 65 million printer cartridges are used in the UK every year. Only 15% of these are recycled – the rest are crammed into landfill sites.
If we recycled more, we’d help to conserve fossil fuels, which in turn would reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, a major cause of global warming.
That’s why Christian Aid has teamed up with Environmental Business Products (EPB). Our goal is to raise £12, 000 over the next 12 months for developing countries by recycling printer cartridges. For every printer cartridge EPB receives, it will donate £1 to Christian Aid.
What your recycled printer cartridges can buy
• £1 will buy two exercise books for children attending school in the Dominican Republic
• £7 could buy a stethoscope for a health worker in Cambodia
• £11 will teach a child in the Democratic of Congo how to use a computer.
How it works
You can order freepost envelopes, either from us or directly from EBP. You can even organise a collection from your church or community – the nice people at EPB will organise a free courier collection for you.
Advertise it
It’s a great idea, so pass it on – we’ve got materials to help you support the scheme, including posters, flyers, large collection bins, boxes with 250 freepost envelopes for people to use.
Start recycling today
For more information or to order freepost recycling bags call 0800 435 576 quoting ‘Christian Aid recycling appeal.’
Even better, you can stay online and visit www.eachonecounts.co.uk/ca/.
Go on, don’t chuck your old printer cartridges away, recycle them.