Posts Tagged ‘schools’

Schools Can Now Earn Up To £12 When They Recycle Printer Cartridges

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Inkjet and toner cartridge recycling is considered as a relatively easier and simpler way to raise funds for schools. Good news for the schools that recycle printer cartridges is that GreenTech now pay up to £12 for each empty printer cartridge.

According to a recent research study, an average school can use 300 printer cartridges per year. So, if a school decides to recycle printer cartridges, it can earn up to (more…)

5 Simple and Fast Fundraising Ideas

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

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

1. Ugly Tie Contest

Ugly Tie Contest - Fundraising idea

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…)

Easy fundraising for schools and charities

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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.