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

The importance of recycling is a difficult concept to teach to children. Too young to understand the environmental and economical benefits, children tend to opt for the easy option of just throwing things away, and even some adults have difficulty grasping the idea of re-use, reduce and recycle. So how do you teach them?

Bribery!

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This recycling bin, designed by YuuJin Chan, dispenses sweets when items are properly recycled in it. Named the ‘Recycling Vending Machine’ (RCV), it provides the recycler with (more…)

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Our recyclers earn an average of £77 every time they send us a batch of used toner cartridges and we even arrange pick up (via courier) for free.

Recycle Laser Printer Cartridges For Cash

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.

• Free pick-up; just tell us the best day for you and our courier will be there
• Top U.K. prices; we pay £1, £2, £3, £5 and up to £12 for each printer cartridge you recycle with us
• Get paid within 14 days of us receiving and inspecting your cartridges
• Easy way to donate to charity – Choose how much of the total value (or any proportion) you would like to donate to charity and we’ll send the payment for you, and confirm via email.

Get Paid Up To £12 – Recycle Laser Printer Cartridges with GreenTech

We have recently launched our new recycling website, with a fresh new look and the following features:

• The widest range of 3000+ cartridges
• Instantly find out how much is your cartridge worth
• Highest U.K. prices for toner cartridge recycling
• Free courier pick-up
• Easy way to donate to charity
• Get paid by bank transfer
• Get paid within 14 days (of us receiving your used toner cartridges)

Find more about GreenTech’s toner cartridge recycling service by visiting our new cartridge recycling website.

Get Paid Up To £12 – Recycle Laser Printer Cartridges with GreenTech

Here’s what people have been earning and saying about the GreenTech printer cartridge recycling scheme recently:

Jennifer, from Norwich, made £157 & said, “Service was absolutely brilliant. Couldn’t believe how quickly we received the cheque.”

Roy, from South Yorkshire, got paid £115.45 by recycling toner cartridges and said, “Your website was the easiest I encountered.”

Rupert, from Oxfordshire, got paid £69.25 by recycling toner cartridges and said “Fast, efficient and all round brilliant service.”

Sue, from Flintshire, got paid £106.20 and said “Great service from GreenTech – really quick pickups and fast release of cheque!”

…….Read more comments from our cartridge recycling customers here.

Please visit our new cartridge recycling website for more details on recycling used toner cartridges.

Here’s a great infographic from The New Ecologist that has some stats showing how much money can be saved if people start recycling and replacing original products with recycled ones. It also lists top 5 recycling countries and what different countries and regions are doing for going green.

According to the infographic, “20 million tons of electronic waste is thrown away each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore.”

Beijing has built the world’s largest recycling facility and hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80%.

The UK recycles around 17.7% of its waste that is far less compared to Austria that recycles approximately 60% of its waste.

About 55 million empty toner cartridges fill the landfill sites every year in the UK. Toner cartridge recycling lets you earn money from something you have already used and want to get rid of. Every empty toner cartridge is worth at least 50p on average if you recycle it. That means if you start recycling today you can claim a share of about £27.5 million each year.

How Can You Make Quick Money with Toner Cartridge Recycling?

You can recycle printer cartridges at GreenTech. We have been running an inkjet and laser printer cartridge recycling scheme for the last 10 years in the UK. We pay up to £12 cash for each empty toner cartridge. Toner cartridge recycling at GreenTech gives you the following benefits:

• Instant display of the price of your empty toner cartridge when you enter your toner cartridge no. or short code to know the value of your empty toner cartridges
• Free courier pick-up if your cartridges are worth £20 or more
• Payment by cheque within 14 working days
• No registration to see the price of your empty toner cartridges, a simple form to fill-in to arrange the free courier pick-up

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If you have any empty toner cartridges then follow these simple steps:

1. Visit our new toner cartridge recycling website to find the price we will pay when you recycle toner cartridges

2. 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.

3. Fill in a simple form with your details to arrange free courier pick. We arrange free courier pick when you send us a minimum of £20 worth of used toner cartridges.

4. We’ll then send your payment by bank transfer or cheque within 14 working days.

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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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…)

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…)

Electronics Recycling Party at Punk Soho

Holding a recycling party is a great way to celebrate the fact that across Europe we have removed the equivalent of 3.5 million cars from the road for 1 year, simply by recycling our old electronics and fridges (etc) rather than sending them to landfill.

Just bring your old electronics to the party at Punk, Soho on 10th November and gain free entry to an evening of eclectic beats with guest DJs Rob Da Bank and Jackmaster plus Special Guest James Yuill. (more…)

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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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Recycling old gadgets and electrical items not only saves the environment but also help you save and in many cases earn some money. However, surgical gadgets have not been traditionally considered to be recyclable and safe. Researchers at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center are examining the legality and basic logistics of recycling pacemakers after they have been removed from a deceased person.

Pacemakers are used to correct a slow heart beat, which may be the result of a previous heart attack or old age. According to the researchers, one to two million people of the world die each year due to lack of access to pacemakers. Despite the very high demand and manufacturers reducing the cost, pacemakers still cost around US$800 (around £500), which is still more than the annual income of the average worker in underdeveloped countries. (more…)