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This Recycle Week, we thought we would offer some tips on how some of our schools make such successful collections... The PTA at Clarendon Primary School in Ashford place their Ink Bin outside the school gates for parents to drop their ink cartridges in every Monday morning. They precede this with a reminder on social media the day before. They have a very active and exciting Facebook page which is worth a look too! Clinton Primary School in Kenilworth have sought permission from their local Waitrose Store to place their Ink Bin within the store for the local community to collect on their behalf. Seek a friendly store manager at a local supermarket and ask if you can do the same! *NOTE: we must help you seek a free WASTE CARRIER LICENSE in order to do this but it's super-easy! Get the pupils involved! We all know that young people are passionate, tenacious and caring so please do get them involved with spreading the word. We hope you find our weekly ECO KIDS newsletters useful- they are our way to support young people in keeping the world colourful and we really are passionate about this. Lea and Garsdon School in Malmesbury have placed their Ink Bin within a local stationers for the shop's customers to drop as they buy. We have schools that have placed their Ink Bin in a local cafe, library, estate agents and more.* Some schools have actually asked the business to sponsor the cost of the Bin and we have advertised their kindness. The PTA at Shaw Ridge Primary School in Swindon decided (following Covid restrictions) to keep their ink collection outside on a permanent basis. Not only does it mean that the school does not have to be involved, the collection is always visible for the school community. St John's Primary School in Colchester have Baby Ink Bins too- they offer these to parents who may work in an office setting and use lots of smaller ink cartridges. You can easily make your own supplementary bins by printing a poster from our website. We aim to keep our Ink Bin Family (that's you) up to date with the world of recycling, environment and also the successes of our customers. We post regularly to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and try to make some of this content of "shareable" interest. Why not share one of our posts to boost your school community's interest? And finally... send back regularly. We really do not need your Ink Bin to be full before you send it back to us. Giving parents regular feedback on how The Ink Bin is working will encourage them to actively participate. We just ask that you have a reasonable amount of HP and Canon inkjet cartridges (eg HP301 or Canon 540) as these help cover our courier costs. LAST BUT NOT LEAST- The Ink Bin Team are always here to offer you support! If you reach out to us on our website page, you will get through to Becky, Justin or Jacob and we are always so happy to offer any help we can! HAPPY RECYCLE WEEK 2021!

We are absolutely delighted to partner with Sustainable Schools Leicester at Leicester City Council to support school recycling and ecofundraising. In partnership with The Ink Bin, Sustainable Schools Leicester will be giving forty Leicester Schools the opportunity to access FREE Ink Bins. The Ink Bin is a family-run business based in the UK that collects and recycles all home-use printer ink cartridges. Around 80% of the cartridges collected will go straight back into the Circular Economy. All of the rest will be recycled- The Ink Bin pride themselves on being a Zero Waste company! Becky Baines, teacher and founder at The Ink Bin says, " It is so important to embed excellent sustainability routines in young people. Recycling is only a small part of this but it marks a wonderful behavioural mindset that all young people willingly and happily embrace." The Ink Bin are passionate about supporting young people on their 'green' journey and have a special program- ECO KIDS- which offers many free resources to busy teachers who would like to establish an Eco Team within their school. You can sign up for their free weekly newsletters on their website.

The Mersea Lions Club have teamed up with Circular Economy specialists The Ink Bin to establish several recycling collection points across Mersea Island in Essex. Did you know that it takes up to 1000 Years for an ink cartridge to decompose in landfill? Not to mention those nasty leakages into our water courses and land. The brilliant news is that they are incredibly easy to recycle. Many home-use ink cartridges can easily be refilled and resold- the ideal closed loop recycling system. The Mersea Island Lions Club has teamed up with The Ink Bin, a local company, to support the Islanders in recycling these cartridges easily. With kind sponsorship from East of England Co-Op; Life in Eco, JK May Funeral Directors and Fen Farm, there are now four Ink Bins dotted around the Island for you to drop your cartridges for recycling. Even better- for the inkjet cartrdiges within any collections, The Ink Bin is able to give the Club some money back! The Ink Bin can accept any home use ink cartridge and will recycle every one. For larger toner cartridges, you can visit the website for guidance- RECYCLING INK TONER CARTRIDGES | The Ink Bin The Ink Bin will be in four key locations- The Co-Op on West Mersea; Life In Eco Zero Waste Shop; Mersea Barns on East Mersea and the MICA Centre. If you have any queries, please do get in touch with us via the website!

THIS WEEK OUR NEWSLETTER FEATURES HOW TO PREVENT FOOD WASTE. It is supported by activities on our Eco Activities page too. We would love to have your thoughts! Newsletters, activities, stories, artwork and more can be found by visiting our ECO KIDS PAGE

Packed full of inspirational ideas, news and artwork for young eco enthusiasts, we are thrilled that this week's newsletter is now available on our Eco Newsletters page. We have even altered it to be more dyslexia-friendly! Alongside this, you can also find an activity based on making birdfeeders on our Eco Activities page. The intention of these newsletters and activities longer term is for Eco Teachers to be able to use them in their Eco Team meetings so we hope they will be displayed on Interactive Whiteboards, thus saving paper and ink. However, please do feel free to simply view them on a computer and use your own scrap paper for the activities; keeping the world colourful!

Whether it’s making a candle from old wax, junk modelling from your recycling or an eco poster for your community, we would love to share your work! it’s as easy as taking a photograph of your eco creation and either emailing or WhatSapping the image to us. If you’d like to share your name and age, that would be lovely too! recycle@theinkbin.co.uk 07712 577528 - The Ink Bin

We are thrilled to announce that our ECOKIDS Eco Activities are starting to be published onto our website. These are designed to support Eco Teams and Teachers, but also any passionate youngster who want to play their part in keeping the world colourful. please head to the website and let us know what you think!

The Ink Bin are thrilled to have teamed up with Clacton-based charity Citizens Advice Tendring to collect, recycle and refill home-use printer cartridges for fundraising. An ink cartridge takes up to 1000 years to break down in landfill, but some of these can actually be refilled and are thus worth up to £1.10 each. Citizens Advice Tendring is a small charity that provides information and advice to help people resolve the problems and difficulties that they may face. Citizens Advice has been serving the Tendring District since 1965 when the Clacton on Sea office opened. The Harwich service began in 1975 and the two merged in 1998 to become Citizens Advice Tendring. The charity gives free and independent advice in areas such as welfare benefits, employment, relationships & family and housing. They also offer specialist debt advice and operate a nationally recognised Mental Health Hub providing mental health support. The service is run by a mixture of paid staff and volunteers working under the guidance of a board of trustees. Citizens Advice Tendring is a member of the national Citizens Advice charity who provide them with services, resources and support but as an independent charity, they’re responsible for running their own affairs within agreed standards. Citizens Advice Tendring usually operates face-to-face with clients at various locations in the Tendring district. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the service is currently being delivered by phone and email. During this testing period, over 5,500 people have been helped with over 11,000 issues. Please do save up your empty ink cartridges from your home printers. They can be dropped off with the charity through their Charity Shop in Clacton once it reopens!

Clinton Primary School have teamed up with Eco-Fundraising initiative, The Ink Bin, to recycle their community's ink cartridges and fundraise for their Green Team's projects. Did you know that it takes up to 1000 years for an ink cartridge to decompose in landfill? They are incredibly simple to recycle yet 80% of us drop them straight into our household rubbish collections. Clinton School in Kenilworth, near Coventry, are striving towards a green status with the introduction of the ‘Green Team’ and are keen to help their community with recycling many different things. The school have introduced a pupil led 'plastic free champion' and now host plastic free events throughout the year. They already recycle crisp packets and will now be collecting any home-use ink cartridge for recycling too. The Ink Bin will recycle every last home-use ink cartridge which they receive and will give Clinton School up to £1.10 for certain HP and Canon inkjet cartridges. The Ink Bins will be set up in the school office for pupils and parents of Clinton Primary School to recycle the ink cartridges which they use at home. A community wide collection will be placed in Waitrose in Kenilworth - it is located next to the bag recycling collections at the far end of the tills. Please do drop your home-use cartridges in when you shop- every last cartridge makes a difference. The Ink Bin recycle every last cartridge sent to us. We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to this local Waitrose Store for supporting such a worthy cause and helping the school's pupils in keeping the world colourful! Any money raised through the recycling will go towards helping Clinton become even greener! We look forward to updating you on how the collection goes and how the school have used their ecofundraising monies! If you are a local business and would like to give an Ink Bin a home on behalf of the school, please do get in touch! For more information contact teemclinton@outlook.com or recycle@theinkbin.co.uk If you are passionate about everything environmental, please do check out The Ink Bin's monthly newsletters on the website- free and easy to download and focused on sharing tips and advice with young people passionate about keeping the world colourful!

This month’s kids newsletter is now available for free download online. It’s packed full of inspiration, including the lowdown on how one Wiltshire school are doing their big for the environment!

Please do keep saving your ink cartridges safely at home whilst we are in lockdown. We can collect them in once safe to do so, but ask that you keep them stashed away during lockdown. An ink cartridge will take up to 1000 years to decompose but The Ink Bin will recycle or refill it in order to reduce its environmental impact.

Check out our TEACHERS / ECO KIDS page for the latest Newsletter- available for free download for Teachers, Parents and Kids. Do let us know if you would like to contribute to our next publication!