Does anyone have any organisations, charities or otherwise, that they'd recommend?
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- Mar 2008
- 19064
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
I had a bit of a search around. You can send them to Tesco and either accrue some Clubcard points or donate to charity. Then there are a number of other charity-based collection schemes but I'm not sure which ones are legit and which ones are the scams.
TBH, as long as someone sends me a postage-payed bag to send the cartridges back in and pledges to recycle them efficiently, I'll be happy.
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A lot of printer manufacturers have their own recycling programme, you can just request a prepaid envelope on their website and then send back your empty cartridges or toner for them to recycle.
I have both a Canon and a Samsung printer, and both of them offer that (although I've only ever used the Canon one so far, and it was dead easy.)
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We used to have an Epson printer and they offered a postage-paid service for returning old cartridges (I think the address on them was somewhere in the Netherlands), which always worked well.
Just looked at the printer we got last year and realised that it too is an Epson. But they don't do that postal service here, so I drop old cartridges off at Staples in Bridgewater, which seems to accept all brands and send them off for recycling. That might well involve them being piled onto a truck and driven halfway across Canada, which probably cancels out any environmental benefit!
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- Mar 2008
- 19064
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Thanks for the advice, guys.
Returning the empty but valuable cartridges to the manufacturers for no sort of reward seems a bit too generous so I'm going to see if I can either benefit my bank account or a charity's. I'll let you know how I got on, if anyone's interested.
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- Mar 2008
- 19064
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Just a courtesy update.
I used Tesco's recycling facility in the end, splitting the value equally between myself (Clubcard points) and a charitable donation. Very easy to use if anyone else is a Clubcard member and has any printer cartridges that they want rid of.
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