UK schools will join forces with a local environmental group in order to recycle mobile phones and old ink cartridges. The scheme will look to decrease the number of these types of items being sent to landfill across the UK. The community scheme could potentially raise £5 million in funding for UK schools.
Dubbed the Support Your School programme, the scheme will be handled by Environmental Business Products (EBP). EBP will give a cash incentive of £3 per mobile phone and £1 per ink cartridge to participating schools. Currently millions of used ink cartridges are sent to landfill, despite the fact that they are easily recycled and can be quite profitable for schools and charities to use as fund raisers.
Support Your School programme manager, Allison Parkes, said that ink cartridges are one of the biggest offenders in landfill waste because millions are thrown away instead of being recycled. The announcement of the new school scheme comes not far after Healthy Pets insurance company received a sustainable business award for their efforts in recycling ink cartridges.
Participating schools in conjunction with EBP hope to increase recycling of ink cartridges and mobile phones by 10 percent, namely 10 percent less going to landfills, through their efforts. The cause will also be an excellent way for schools to bring in much-needed extra funding with a sustainable fund raising project.
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