Recycle your inkjet and toner cartridges and old mobiles!
Charlbury's bookshop is pioneering a new recycling facility in the town, and it isn't just the environment that benefits.
Bring empty inkjet cartridges (not Epson, and not Canon cartridges other than Bubblejet) to Evenlode Books in Market Street and Oxfam will receive £1 for each one. Toner cartridges (any make) are worth £2 each. Mobiles bring Oxfam £5 each on average. They are all re-used and re-manufactured as far as possible, and only scrapped as a last resort.
These items contain valuable metals and nefarious pollutants, so there is every reason not to put them in a wheelie bin anyway. If you put them in your recycling box, they won't be re-used, just scrapped. And worse still, all business waste goes straight to landfill, even if it could have been recycled!
If you want more detailed information about exactly what happens, go to www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/recycle/index.htm
Jon Carpenter · Thu 21 Sep 2006, 12:29 · Link