Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

Recycled Lights | Save Environment by Using Eco-Lights

Monday, September 5th, 2011

If you are also a person fanatic about saving your environment, then you can find several ways by recycling the products you would have thrown otherwise. Do it either by recycling your printer cartridges, tyres or gadgets. In this post I will share one more idea for your recycling craves.  Recycle, to turn your wastage into bright beautiful lights.

Helios| Recycled Zip Lamp

recycled zip lamp

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While throwing away your old dresses take little of your time and collect zips from them. You can create a very beautiful dazzling lamp by recycling those (more…)

Recycle Cartridges: Help Preserving Wild Life by Recycling Cartridges

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Did you know that your old mobile phones or printer cartridges could be used to protect the environment and help preserve wild life? If you take a look around your apartment or house, you will inevitably find several unwanted goods that can be recycled. Recycle cartridges first, that are lying idly in your home.

recycle cartridges to save wild life

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When you recycle cartridges, you do not only save money but you potentially play a role in savouring those of the future generations as well as saving many lives (both animal and human). Printer cartridges thrown in landfills and dumps take 1000’s of years to decompose and in the process release harmful gases like nitrous oxide, that pollute both the air and water. Recycle cartridges, and you will also help create (more…)

Recycle Tyres| 3 Tips to Save Environment via Tyre Recycling

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Environment friendly people are always in search of new ideas for saving environment and making the world green.  Tyres if not recycled or disposed properly may cause serious threats to environment and health risk.

See below, how some geniuses have recycled tyres in unique and beautiful ways.

1. Tyre Frame

Recycled Tyre Frame

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This tyre frame for mirror has been made from recycled tyre. Intricately designed, layered and nailed with (more…)

I2R E-Paper | Environment Friendly E-Paper Developed by Taiwan

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan has launched a new next generation erasable and re-useable e-Paper. This paper is being considered as an excellent replacement for the paper signs and posters which are produced daily in the millions.

I2R e-Paper

The paper is known as i2R e-Paper that can be used 260 times, and needs no back light for printing. It can be produced in several colours. Re-printing is done by simply erasing the already written text by passing an electric current through it.

According to the researchers the mass production for the i2R paper will take two years. Then, we will be in a state to save few trees and environment. Until then, help environment by recycling your empty printer cartridges with GreenTech.

Via: [Reuters]

Recycling Cartridges: Unknowingly Save the Environment by Recycling Cartridges

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Mother earth has bestowed us with many resources and it is our duty to protect and maintain them for future generations to the best of our abilities. Many of us might casually ignore the consequences by not doing so, while many others might be very environmentally conscious and linked with several recycling agencies as well as awareness groups. However, all you green people out there might not be fully acquainted with the concept of recycling cartridges. You might have unknowingly thrown away several of your printer cartridges without considering the harm you are causing to the environment.

There is more to recycle than your collected glass or plastic bottles. Each year approximately 375 million used cartridges are thrown away into incinerators or landfills all over the world. A used cartridge weighs about 3lb and is composed of (more…)

Brad Pitt and Prince Charles Hit The Top 20 In The Observer’s Green Power List

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The Observer’s Green Power List is diverse, with names such as Jonathan Franzen (novelist), Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York), Evo Morales (politician) and even Arnie! With Canadian scientist David Suzuki – broadcaster, author and environmental activist – as number 1 on the list.

The list was announced to launch The Observer’s 2011 Ethical Awards, launched last week.

Recycle Toner Cartridges – We Pay Up To £12 Each When You Recycle Toner Cartridges With GreenTech

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Recycle toner cartridges and get paid within 14 days with free courier pick-up.

Visit the new Greentech toner cartridge recycling website to find the price we will pay when you recycle toner cartridges:

1. Simply enter your toner cartridge codes or the laser printer make and model. The website will instantly display the price we pay when you recycle toner cartridges. Currently customers get paid from about 50p up to £12 for every used and empty printer toner cartridge. Prices do fluctuate depending on demand.
2. We arrange free courier pick when you send us a minimum of £20 worth of used toner cartridges.
3. We’ll then send your payment by cheque within 14 working days. The GreenTech toner cartridge recycling website is currently being improved to give customers the option of receiving funds by bank transfer too.

We arrange free courier pick-up when you recycle toner cartridges with GreenTech

GreenTech will give you a call to confirm your pick-up dates, so be sure to have your inkjet and toner cartridge ready for recycling, and packed up ready for the courier company to call. The inkjet and toner cartridge recycling courier service is totally free. GreenTech will send you a confirmation email with the dates that you have confirmed are best for you.

As soon as your empty toner cartridges arrive at the GreenTech recycling factory here in Peterborough we will inspect them (to ensure they are not damaged and can be recycled – 99% of cartridges are usually found to be fine).

We’ll then send your payment by cheque within 14 working days.

The GreenTech toner cartridge recycling website is currently being improved to give customers the option of receiving funds by bank transfer too.

About GreenTech – Recycle Toner Cartridges -  Get paid Up To £12 Each

GreenTech have been collecting, recycling and remanufacturing inkjet and laser toner cartridges in the U.K. for over 10 years and estimate to have saved the equivalent of 5 million litres of oil or 147 football pitches worth of waste printer cartridges.

GreenTech currently recycles and remanufactures over 27,000 printer cartridges every month, at their factory in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

- Established in 2000
- Based in Peterborough, UK
- Employ over 30 staff in our office and production facility
- ISO 9001 Certified

In August 2010 GreenTech moved to a bigger recycling factory, with quadruple the space for stock and a faster more efficient recycling production process.

Can’t Recycle? Howabout ‘Upcycle’ Discarded Clothes to Make Children’s Clothing

Monday, November 15th, 2010
Re-jigged Upcycles Discarded Clothes to Make Children’s Clothing

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When you can’t recycle something, upcycle it. This is true especially for clothes as we told you about festival jackets and bags made from upcycled tents and an upcycled origami dress made from a thousand newspaper cranes. Well, a Herefordshire based company called Re-jigged has turned that into a business as they convert unwearable clothes into children’s clothing. (more…)

Small Businesses Can Reduce IT Carbon Footprint by 90% with Cloud Computing

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Small Businesses Can Reduce IT Carbon Footprint by 90% with Cloud Computing

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Use of energy in massive data centres for cloud computing has been a big debatable issue ever since these data centres evolved and major cloud services vendors have been trying to figure out ways to reduce the carbon footprint of these large data storage facilities. However, a recent study by Microsoft suggests that enterprise clients can slash their IT carbon footprint by 30 to 90 percent by moving it to the cloud. (more…)

Rachel Gets Paid Over £1000 By Recycling Toner Cartridges Since March

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Rachel from Norfolk  is again busy recycling toner cartridges and just sent us her latest batch for which we will be paying her £249.25. Since Rachel started recycling toner cartridges, in  March this year, she has now earned £1079  through the GreenTech website.

Dan, on the GreenTech Helpdesk, has called Rachel and arranged our courier (FedEx) to pick-up Rachel’s old and empty cartridges tomorrow, for free, as we do for every recycler who sends us £20 worth or more.

This latest batch of cartridges includes the in-demand Brother DR3200 Original Empty Black Drum Unit which we pay £12 for each toner cartridge. There are also a number of HP CE505A Original Empty Black Toner Cartridges (we pay £2.75 each), HP CB436A Original Empty Black Toner Cartridges (we pay £3 each) and there’s 2 x HP CC364X Original Empty High Capacity Black Toner Cartridges which we pay £6.25 for each. (more…)