Recycle While You Wait

Howard Lake | 28 September 2006 | Newswire

World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is teaming up with 1,000 doctors’ surgeries across the UK in a unique scheme to encourage people to recycle their old and empty printer cartridges. Each recycled cartridge generates a donation of £1 to WCRF. There are 65 million cartridges bought every year in the UK alone, of which only 10 per cent are recycled. This leaves over 58 million gathering dust around offices or in landfills where they can take up to 1,000 years to decompose.
The company behind this innovative scheme is Environmental Business Products Ltd (EBP) – Europe’s foremost recycler and re-manufacturer of inkjet and laser printer cartridges. The money raised will go towards funding vital research into cancer prevention.
Michaela Strachan is lending her support to the campaign. The presenter of BBC programmes such as The Really Wild Show and Countryfile says: Everyone talks about the three R’s: reduce, re-use, and recycle. Now we can add a fourth R: research. By simply recycling your old printer cartridges you can help WCRF with their research into ‘DNA’: diet, nutrition and active lifestyle to help prevent cancer. So do it RN: right now!”
Linda Ellis, Senior Fundraising Manager at WCRF says: This is fundraising for charity made easy. All we ask if that people look for the Freepost envelope at their local surgery, pick one up and put their old printer cartridge in the post. EBP will do the rest. It couldn’t be simpler. It’s both good for the environment and helps fund innovative scientific research and our extensive education programmes.”
Freepost cartridge recycling envelopes will be distributed in doctor’s surgeries. Patients can take one while they wait, drop in their old cartridge and pop it in the post. Alternatively, they can take it into the office or give it family and friends who are bound to have a few empty cartridges lying around. Larger quantities of empty cartridges can be collected free of charge; to make arrangements for a collection, contact 0800 435576.
People can also call Freephone 0800 435576 or e-mail wc**@in******.uk to be sent Freepost envelopes.
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For more information, contact Ilse Van Steen, Press & PR Manager WCRF UK, on 020 7343 4228 or e-mail i.********@wc**.org. For press information about EBP, contact Pam Fenton on 01494 718502 or e-mail Pa*******@pf**.biz
Notes to editors
World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK)
World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) is a registered charity, number 1000739. Our mission is to raise awareness that the risk of cancer is reduced by healthy food and nutrition, physical activity and weight management, and to develop and strengthen scientific knowledge of the relation of these factors to cancer prevention.
The evidence for this was provided by our first expert report ‘Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective’, published in 1997. This was a review of the thousands of leading international research studies that relate to food, nutrition and cancer prevention and produced a clear set of guidelines for members of the public to follow. A second report, the WCRF/AICR* ‘Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective’, will be published in November 2007 and will be the most authoritative of its kind.
Few people realise that 30 to 40 per cent of cancers, including many cases of bowel, breast and stomach cancer could be prevented if only we thought more about the food that we eat and included a little more exercise into our daily routines.
WCRF UK is part of the WCRF global network and is a member of WCRF International which has affiliates in the United States (*American Institute for Cancer Research) the Netherlands, Hong Kong and France.
Environmental Business Products (EBP)
London-based EBP created the market for recycling inkjet cartridges. It was probably the first company to work with charities on inkjet and laser cartridge collection programmes. The company now distributes millions of recycling bags a year in addition to other collection media through numerous charity and retail partners.
· The world’s leading re-manufacturers of inkjet cartridges
· Operates waste cartridge collection programmes across the UK and rest of EU
· Helps raise around £500,000 a year for over 50 charities
· Winner of the Queen’s award for Enterprise 2004 for International Trade
· Winner of The Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic 2004 Award for Innovation
· Listed in The Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic 2004 Fast Track 100 as one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies
· Selected in the Sunday Times 2004 Tech Track League as one the UK’s fastest-growing technology companies
For more information on EBP, go to www.inkagain.co.uk, call Pam Fenton on 01494 718502, mobile 07751 580510 or e-mail Pa*******@pf**.biz. For more details about inkjet recycling schemes, call Freephone 0800 435 576

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.