FAQs – Get Paid Up To £12 To Recycle Toner Cartridges with GreenTech

Many charities see inkjet and laser toner cartridge recycling as a relatively simple way of fundraising. One recent research study found that a medium-sized business can use between 75 and 200 cartridges per year, or even more. So let’s say the fundraising team manages to persuade 10 local businesses to ‘donate’ their empty laser toner cartridges, they can expect about 100 x 10 = 1000 cartridges which at an average of £1.50 would raise funds of £1500.

This calculation, of course, does not include all the empty inkjet and laser toner cartridges individuals could be donating too. But it’s already a pretty significant sum and one that any charity would be happy to accept.
How much do GreenTech pay?

GreenTech have paid thousands of pounds to charities for recycling inkjet and toner cartridges. Even our top recycler in 2010 so far has also been a one-woman charity in Surrey that has been paid £1019.70. Here’s a list of top 10 charities that have been paid for recycling in 2010 so far.

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Running a printer cartridge recycling and collection scheme can be a time-consuming business.

It can be a bit messy too. When recycling and packing up the old printer cartridges sometimes the ‘not-quite-empty’ inkjet and toner cartridges can leak. It’s OK when it’s a small number of cartridges, every now and then, but if you are running a big collection scheme for your school or charity then it can be quite a pain.

We think we’ve come up with the answer to these problems and instead of encouraging you to run a collection scheme yourself we suggest you simply encourage your supporters to send their cartridges direct to us.

Simply by promoting our inkjet and toner cartridge recycling scheme on your charity and school website, and in your email newsletters, fund-raisers can generate the same amount of funds but without any of the hassle.

We arrange free courier pick-up from all your supporters, be they from parents, friends or local companies.

All you need to do is add a link on your website and emails to our website here http://www.gtrecycling.com/recycle .

Your school or charity will get paid the full amount that your supporter donates. All they need to do is fill in the form on our website, with your organisation’s name and we take care of the rest. You can also easily add this link to your Facebook Fan Pages/Linked-in profiles, even your blog, Twitter pages and more.

We’re a small but growing toner and inkjet cartridge recycling company in Peterborough and are having a big year since launching our online recycling cash calculator, on our website here; http://www.gtrecycling.com/recycle .

Our recyclers are saying nice things about the website since we display an ‘instant’ price we pay for their empty cartridges. And my colleagues here on the GreenTech Recycling Helpdesk are doing a good job organising free pick-up of their cartridges and then sending payments to all our recyclers and charities/schools within 14 days.  (more…)

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We have a few new ideas and designs to improve our recycle printer cartridges website that we’ll be developing over the coming weeks. We hope to make the whole process faster and the website easier to use, so you can input all the cartridges you are recyling into the website faster.

Here’s the first of the pages we have started to design. We’ll be posting updates over the coming week hoping for our customers feedback. If you have any ideas/comments/feedback then we’d love to hear from you. Simply send me an email to paul (at) gtrecycling.com and I’ll be very grateful.

The website redesign project will take a few weeks to complete but we are hoping to have all the feedback from current recycling customers by the end of October. So if you have any ideas then please do email me. Thanks.

Paul.

Charities that encourage their donors to recycle printer cartridges not only earn donations but they help them reducing their carbon footprint. Recently GreenTech have paid £4888 to thirteen small local charities. Following is a list of the local charities and the amounts they earned by using GreenTech’s recycling services to recycle printer cartridges. (more…)

Many charities nowadays consider printer cartridge recycling as a simpler and easier way of fundraising. They encourage their supporters to recycle printer cartridges instead of donating cash.

A medium-sized business can use up to 200 printer cartridges per year, reveals a recent research study. So assuming that the fundraising team manages to encourage 5 local businesses to recycle printer cartridges, they can expect about (more…)

Fundraisers should be simple and easy and should have quick results. Here are five simple and fast fundraising ideas.

1. Ugly Tie Contest

Participants of an ugly tie contest / image source: laurinburgchristian.org

Let’s accept the fact that we all buy wearables and clothing over the years that are undesirable and we would rather forget about. Ugly tie contest can be a great fundraising idea that will not only help you raise funds but to give people opportunity to laugh. (more…)

Many Schools and Charities see inkjet and laser toner cartridge recycling as a relatively simple way of fundraising. One recent research study found that an average school can use 300 printer cartridges per year. So say this school got paid an average of £1.50 per recycled empty cartridge they could then raise £450 just from their own school’s office printers. A medium-sized business can use between 75 and 200 cartridges per year, or even more.

So lets say the school fundraising team manages to persuade 10 local businesses to ‘donate’ their empty laser toner cartridges, they can expect about 100 x 10 = 1000 cartridges which at an average of £1.50 would raise funds of £1950. This calculation, of course, does not include all the empty inkjet and laser toner cartridges parents could be donating. Butit’s still a pretty significant sum and one that any PTA or charity would be happy to accept.