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How you can help the Daisy Appeal

Recycling

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Printer Cartridge Recycling

Does your office or home use a printer? If it's anything like ours they probably go through them at a rate of knots. With our Inkjet or Laser Toner Cartridge recycling initiative you can help twofold! For every used toner/inkjet cartridge recycled The Daisy Appeal will receive between 50p and £6 depending upon the type. That is a great little donation for Daisy literally saved from the bin!

Please check The Printer Recycling List (52.6Kb Adobe .pdf file) to see if you can help!

• Approximately 60 million inkjets are used each year, but less than 10% are recycled
• Each inkjet cartridge can take up to 1000 years to biodegrade
• Many toner cartridges are made of over 1.5kg plastic, aluminium and assorted parts – all are non-biodegradable materials
• 1.5 pints of oil are used to produce one new laser printer cartridge

Mobile Phone Recycling

Modern advanced electronic devices contain both useful recyclable components and poisonous compounds. It is illegal for a business to not recycle a computer for this very reason. In a very similar way, the high turn over of mobile phones in residential and business use can and should be recycled. Daisy can offer a recycling point for you to safely and ethically get rid of any spare mobiles!

Phones are collected and sent to a specialist facility where each phone is rigorously tested to determine whether it will be resold or processed for materials recycling. The aim is to reuse as many phones as possible as this has the least impact on the environment. Wherever possible the phones are fully re-furbished and sent to developing countries to improve communication.

Some interesting facts about mobile phone recycling:

• 18 million mobiles are bought each year yet fewer than 5% of unwanted handsets will be recycled
• Over three-quarters of the population will replace or upgrade their handset in the next 18 months
• Many mobiles contain precious metals including gold and silver, and also toxic substances such as cadmium and mercury. If they end up in a landfill site, these could leak into the soil and pollute the surrounding environment.