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April 30, 2005
This Week's Good Idea - Recycle your inkjet cartridges
Empty ink jet cartridges are valuable; they can be recycled and reused. Those from my desktop printer for example are worth £2.50 each. Last year we in the UK dumped over 350 million empty cartridges into landfill sites, when we could be recycling them to raise money for mission.
Our church, for example, collects empty inkjet cartridges, and uses them to raise money for a "Bible and Bandage Clinic" in Zambia. You make money for mission and improve the evironment simply by not throwing something away. Can't be bad.
This website tells you more, and where you can send them in the UK. I'm told this company do a similar service in the US. Just put your empty cartridges aside and, when you have enough, send them off. If there is a group of you, of course, you'll raise more, quicker. Remember, every cartridge that we recycle helps reduce landfill usage and improves the environment... and raises money for mission - or to send to Sudan
Posted by Keith at April 30, 2005 08:27 AM