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Refresh Cartridges Partner With the Int’l Tree Foundation to Plant Trees and Recycle Cartridges
Aug 2012 In 2006 approximately 120 million toner and inkjet cartridges were sold throughout Europe with only around 25% of these units being recovered for re-use. By taking some of these usually discarded units and recycling them, Refresh Cartridges hopes to be able to help the environment by not only taking these units out of landfill but by ensuring that any funds generated are given to the ITF so they can continue to plant trees worldwide.
The UK Cartridge Supplier Refresh Cartridges have recently partnered with the International Tree Foundation to give any individual or business an easy way of recycling their empty printer cartridges at the same time as providing funds to a worthy cause.
In 2006 approximately 120 million toner and inkjet cartridges were sold throughout Europe with only around 25% of these units being recovered for re-use. It is common knowledge that printer cartridges are primarily constructed using oil so pushing this scarce, non-biodegradable resource in to landfill is not only environmentally wasteful but, as the empty units are usually worth selling to the remanufacturing industry, it is also economically wasteful.
In order to offer this scheme the company have teamed up with one of the UK’s largest Printer Cartridge Recycling Companies who currently prevent approximately 2,500 tonnes of printer consumables entering the waste stream. This company don’t pick and choose what is recycled based on the residual value of the cartridge but recycle literally any cartridge based product that is sent to them.
Chris Holgate, Director of Refresh Cartridges said of the scheme “As a company we’re always looking at ways of reducing our carbon footprint. Our buildings all use green energy and we currently recycle absolutely everything from the cardboard boxes that our orders arrive in to the plastic that our lunches are packaged in. This new scheme allows us to take this environmental responsibility out in to the wider community by not only preventing a limited resource from ending up in landfill but additionally using the funds generated from the scheme to plant trees in our community and abroad.”
Refresh Cartridges aren’t taking a commission from this scheme or make anything from the arrangement, but it is hoped that this commitment to environmental sustainability will be noted by their customers. All monies raised are passed to the ITF so they can continue their important work planting trees and protecting forests both at home and overseas.
Those customers wishing to participate in the scheme can arrange a collection or obtain a freepost return address for their cartridges by visiting the Refresh Cartridges Recycling Page
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