recyling printer cartridges and other stuff

[cambourne7]

Hi All,

Just got an email from boots (http://www.bootsrecycle.com/consumer/) and they give you points for sending them stuff i have 2 old printer cartridges which husband put in bin and might still be there boots want to give me 200 points for these and looking into it in more detail the most i can get on some of the sites which offer cash for these cartridges are about 50pence each....

I did not know you could do this :)

We also recycling empty packets of baby wipes and empty food pouches via http://www.terracycle.co.uk/ you can sign up to also recycling yoghurt pots, pens (if in a school), and coffee pod cartridges :)

Both these services also gives something to charity :)

Just though i would share and wondered what other people have found?

Cam

[cambourne7]

[bazzysbarn]

You can only get points on the ones they list though

[manicscousers]

Thanks for this, Cam. Just sent this to my sister (teacher), thought her school might like it. unfortunately, we don't buy this type of product and our printer cartridges can't be recycled, last I heard (Epson)

[cambourne7]

if boots dont recycling them then just have a look online there might be someone else who can take them :)

As a teacher your sister might be more interested in the terracycle site as they have some special school based collections for the kids to do :)

All i know is it makes my bin a little lighter each month i love being able to find places i can freepost my rubbish to shame number 10 dont have a freepost address :) HAHA

[Jeannine]

Our supermarket gives us points for any packaging we return that is their own brand and many of the other brands too, we take back almost all the packaging we get, tins, bottles, cereal packets etc etc even down to the wrappers of hand soap.

There is very little we cannot return.

We also get points if we bring our own shopping bags so we don't have to use shop bags.

XX Jeannine

[grawrc]

I send printer cartridges to Macmillan Cancer Relief (freepost).

I would like to see the supermarkets getting rid of huge amounts of unnecessary packaging or providing the facility for people to leave it in store when they buy as well as returning e.g. empty bottles and cans. They are the ones that produce the waste so they should deal with it rather than the councils.

It also irritates me that so much of packaging still cannot be recycled. Perhaps if the supermarkets got it all back they would figure out a more environmentally friendly way of retailing.

I remember shopping for my mum and dad as a child with a couple of shopping bags. All the fruit and veg went straight in - dirtiest and heaviest at the bottom. Butter and cheese were not prepacked and for ice cream you took a bowl. Money was refunded on bottles and jam jars too if you returned them to the shop.

[tim]

http://www.cartridgeexpress.net/recycle-ink-cartridges.html

[cambourne7]

Yes its sad that our food (and world) has been so sanitised with every bit of fruit covered in wax and then wrapped in plastic :( Our council to save money has stopped the plastic collections which we have to bag up and drive a mile to the nearest recycling point which is always full !! When they did collect we put out 1 black sack of rubbish a week, 2/3 bags of recycling every 2 weeks and a massive 1/2 bags of plastic for recycling a week. Now we do 2 bags of black rubbish a week were told the company who process the rubbish remove most of the plastic but i cant help wonder if thats true and what a waste of resources when we could just bag it all up at home :(

I keep large envelopes and posting bags we get though the post and i have loads in the utility all with there postal labels baby wipe packaging, yoghurt pots, food pouches and then the carrier bags for cans and jars for recycling i am working my way though all my old ones (have a good supply of cotton or large recycling bags for shopping)