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Recycle for the Elephants

One mans rubbish is anothers treasure, this is certainl y the case for elephants. By recylcing your used printer cartridges and old mobile phones, it helps us to raise money for the elephants. It is simple and easy to do:

Cartridges can be sent to:

Cash For Cartridges

Freepost, RLZL-EUJG-ZYEL

13 Main Street

Keyworth

Nottingham

NG12 5AA

They do not accept Epson Cartridges or toner cartridges. If you are a business or school and would like to run a campaign to recycle your cartridges for the research then please get in touch with Kate elephantresearch@yahoo.co.uk

Mobile phones can be sent to:

Greener Solutions

FREEPOST

LON17592

Mitcham

DR4 3UZ

Please mark clearly on the envelope ELEPHANTS FOR AFRICA, so they know who to attribute the funds to. If you rather, we can send you some of the official envelopes. Contact Kate on elephantresearch@yahoo.co.uk

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Facts and Figures

An estimated 80 million Mobile Phones are kept in cupboards and drawers - these are the ones we are after - put them to good use and recycle them for the elephants

Less than 10 % of all unused Mobile Phones are recycled

Mobile Phones contain substances like cadmium, arsenic and mercury that need to be disposed of in a safe and environmentally friendly manner

More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK (1800 tonnes) - the same weight as 257 adult male elephants.

More than 1.1 billion inkjet cartridges are used annually around the world - laid end to end this would be 129 times as long as the Great Wall of China

Each discarded empty laser printer cartridge adds approximately three pounds of waste to our landfills

The plastic used in a typical cartridge is made of engineering grade polymers and is expected to take up to 1000 years to decompose