A clever way to donate……
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 21 2009 | By: elephantsofbotswana
One mans rubbish is another’s treasure, this is certainly the case for elephants. By recycling your used printer cartridges and old mobile phones, it helps us to raise money for the elephants. It is simple and easy to do:
All you have to do is collect these items and post them.
Cartridges can be sent to:
Cash For Cartridges
Freepost, RLZL-EUJG-ZYEL
13 Main Street
Keyworth
Nottingham
NG12 5AA, United Kingdom
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 info@elephantresearch.co.uk
Mobile phones can be sent to:
Greener Solutions
FREEPOST
LON17592
Mitcham
DR4 3U, United Kingdom
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 info@elephantresearch.co.uk
SOME FACTS
· 24.5 million new phones were purchased in the UK last year
· By 2009, around 1 billion handsets will be sold each year in the world
· There are 70 million Mobile Phone subscribers in the UK, which is replaced on average every 12 months
· An estimated 80 million Mobile Phones are kept in cupboards and drawers
· 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 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
· More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each year in the UK (1800 tonnes) - the same weight as 18 Blue Whales or 257 adult male elephants.
Tags: elephant, mobile phones, printer cartridge, recycle
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Hi, I am Kate Evans, or more commonly known as Elephant Kate. I am a zoologist whose great love is elephants. Since 2002 I have been living my dream by researching elephants in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. I decided I was going to be an elephant researcher when I was seven. I was living in Asia at the time and visited the elephant orphanage in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was there that I made up my mind I was going to work for these majestic and intelligent animals. I made a promise to an elephant and we all know an elephant never forgets!!!! It took me 20 years to finally realise my dream and start my life as an elephant researcher. It was 20 years well spent and now I have to pinch myself most days to make sure it is true and I am living my dream.
I now head up a team who are researching the elephants and trying to work out the social and ecological needs of the largest remaining population of the African elephant. From time to time, other team members will add their thoughts and experiences. I love sharing my experiences - so I hope that this blog is a medium through which you will be able to join the elephants and I on our adventures in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. -
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