Each one counts

Today, over 70% of all empty printer cartridges end up prematurely in landfill sites where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. As people become more aware of the importance of recycling, the customer is increasingly looking for an environmentally friendly alternative to the expensive brands originally supplied with your printer. Few customers understand that cartridges can be reused up to six times. The millions of cartridges we collect are cleaned, refilled with high-quality ink, technically modified where appropriate and then resold in the market. This process is more beneficial for the environment than even the recycling carried out by the original manufacturers which involves a heat-based industrial process to separate the plastic and metal components which are then melted down to be reused in other products or simply broken into pellets before being discarded as waste and ending up in a landfill again.

By encouraging consumers to buy remanufactured cartridges and returning the empty cartridges to us, we hope to reduce the high volume of non-biodegradable waste that ends up in landfill sites

We were the first recycler to partner with charities on cartridge collection programmes and, today, work with over 100 charities across the UK and continental Europe as well as numerous schools, NHS Trusts and local councils to collect between 5 and 10 million printer cartridges each year. To date, we have donated over £4,000,000 to charities.

Each One Counts is EBP’s web-based charity recycling scheme for printer cartridges and mobile phones – www.eachonecounts.co.uk. Simply visit the website, select the charity of your choice and order recycling bags. We will make a donation to the charity of your choice every time you return an empty that we recycle.

Each One Counts is both a corporate member of the Institute of Fundraising and the Princes May Day Network, the UK’s largest group of businesses committed to taking action on climate change.

UK Charity Partners

European Charity Partners

 

Support your school

Support Your School is EBP’s rapidly growing collection programme especially designed for schools and raising much needed funds for local schools. A new website was launched in January 2010 with the support of celebrities, Carrie and David Grant, and over 1,000 schools have registered. See why they are getting involved in the scheme here.

 

 

Recycling box

Recycling Box is EBP’s recycling service for businesses and high volume users of products that are not suitable for remanufacture. EBP operates a zero-landfill policy and gives consumers a genuine alternative to ensuring their waste doesn’t become an environmental hazard.