Recycle Inkjet Cartridges
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Donating to a charity is something many people do on a regular basis. The tax laws in the United States even offer benefits to individuals and organization for donating to charity. However, with the cost of living, it’s not easy to come up with extra money to donate to charity.
One great way to donate to charity without having to take money directly out of your own pocket is to recycle items you already have and maybe no longer use or no longer want. That’s especially true if you might otherwise just discard those items. A good example is used cartridges from your printer. Many places will accept and ultimately recycle inkjet cartridges for free or even give you a small discount on future cartridge purchases, but it’s just as easy to donate them to a charity.
Recycle 4 Charity is an organization based in California which will gladly accept your empty cartridges and donate the proceeds to a charity of your choice. Like many other organizations, R4C will provide you with pre-paid shipping materials. Then you can send them as many cartridges as you wish. One option is to donate the cartridges so 10% of their gross profits will be donated to charities. Or you can elect to receive money back which you can use for any purpose you choose, including donating it to a charity in your area.
Depending on the cartridge type, they will pay anywhere between $0.10 and $3.00 for each one, although most cartridges seem to fall somewhere between $0.20 to $0.45. At first glance, that might not seem like much money, but when your donations are matched by thousands of people, the donations add up to a significant amount of money. Besides, if you were just going to throw the cartridges away, at least you’ll know that little bit of money is going to a good cause and helping someone in need in the process.
Recycle 4 Charity can also provide a variety of boxes, baggies, and recycling containers which you can then set up in your school, your church, or your workplace as an incentive to get more people involved in recycling and donating their used printer cartridges
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Companies like Staples also have programs which will donate the proceeds from the recycling of inkjet cartridges to certain charities. For example, Staples will donate $3.00 to local schools for each eligible inkjet cartridge through a program called Recycle for Education. You can donate your own cartridges, or you could start a whole donation campaign of your own in your school, workplace, church, and community.
At $3.00 per cartridge, if you could get your community to participate, your local school of your choice could be receiving some extra money to use for events, supplies, or to fund other programs. You can visit Recycle for Education to get more information about eligible cartridges and to sign up.
If you live in the United Kingdom, there are a number of organizations which will accept empty cartridges and then resell them to the original manufacturer with the proceeds from the sale going to charity. Homeless International, Recycling Appeal, and Action Aid Recycling are among the many organizations. In United States, there are similar programs such as freecycling.org that will donate 100% of the proceeds to a local organization of your choosing. They have a list of organizations in a number of states which will directly benefit when you recycle old inkjet cartridges.
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