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Please do keep on collecting your empty home-use ink cartridges for our school throughout the holidays. Every cartridge makes a difference! The Ink Bin collect and either refill or recycle every cartridge which our school sends to them; stopping them from spending up to 1000 years in landfill. For certain HP and Canon inkjet cartridges, such as an HP62; HP301; Canon 540 or Canon 545, The Ink Bin will give our school up to £1.00 each.

Please do keep on collecting your empty home-use ink cartridges for our school throughout the holidays. Every cartridge makes a difference! The Ink Bin collect and either refill or recycle every cartridge which our school sends to them; stopping them from spending up to 1000 years in landfill. For certain HP and Canon inkjet cartridges, such as an HP62; HP301; Canon 540 or Canon 545, The Ink Bin will give our school up to £1.00 each.

We are thrilled to be working with The Ink Bin- a teacher-led eco fundraiser for schools and charities. The Ink Bin collect and recycle all home-use ink cartridges and will give our School money back on certain HP and Canon cartridges. Please start collecting your empty ink cartridges today!

The Ink Bin were thrilled to visit local supermarket Gravelle's Budgens Sawbridgeworth this week to introduce The Ink Bin within store in order to support the community with their home use ink cartridge collecting and recycling. Lets get those ink cartridges away from landfill; keeping the world colourful. If you use a home printer, please visit Gravelle's Budgens Sawbridgeworth to drop them in. We pledge that every cartridge will be recycled and some are even refilled. An ink cartridge will take up to 1000 years to decompose in landfill, not to mention all that messy leakage into the natural environment. Budgens in Sawbridgeworth are a a go-to location in the community and are making strides in supporting the community towards a more sustainable future. Most recently, the store has added a community board on behalf of Sustainable Sawbridgeworth which shares anything from recycling tips to details of local litter picks. The group has grown from the already successful Facebook group Plastic Free Sawbridgeworth; part of the Surfers Against Sewage organisation. The Ink Bin also support another Surfers Against Sewage group, Plastic Free Eastbourne, and are thrilled to be growing their support for the institution. If your local community would like to join The Ink Bin Family please contact us for a free Ink Bin and educational materials. We place education at the forefront of our work; supporting this generation and the next in keeping the world colourful!

We are thrilled to welcome Tendring Primary Recycling Scheme, an East Anglian sustainability hero of ours, to The Ink Bin Family. This month, we were able to support them to save 1571 cartridges from landfill, as well as support the school itself with £312.85 for their efforts! First and foremost, this wonderful organisation works tirelessly towards their main goal- collecting recycling that would usually end up in the bin. Tendring Primary Recycle Scheme collect a very wide range of 'rubbish' that we usually throw in our dustbins and ends up in landfill. This includes crisp packets, ink cartridges sliced bread bags, lids of all types and much much more. A brilliant scheme educating the children on recycling, raising much needed funds as well as reducing general waste. With the tireless enthusiasm and commitment of Ellamy Fox Fraser and her Team, the group have saved a significant amount from landfill through promoting a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly approach to waste. I was lucky enough to visit Ellamy and Katie this week at their Recycling HQ, based on the site of Tendring Primary School. Their recycling programme is incredibly comprehensive and thorough as well as incredibly well organised. TPRS have been recycling ink cartridges as part of their programme for a while now but recently chose to move across to The Ink Bin. Ellamy praised our works by saying, "Becky made the whole process so easy and quick. The amount we raised in our first transaction was fantastic, especially as switching to The Ink Bin from the previous company we used also saved me hours of work. No more time spent recording inks individually and having to box them up for posting, Becky collected them from us and simply sent me the remittance and credit, all within a few days too. I really couldn't have asked for anything better." The Ink Bin collect all home-use ink cartridges and pledge that every last one will either be refilled or recycled- no more stinky ink escaping into landfill! One ink cartridge can take up to 1000 years to decompose so it really is a fantastic result for the community. The Ink Bin have a long-standing environmental presence within Tendring District Council. Last year, we co-hosted Climate Change in Clacton- a conference which saw Gareth-Redmond King of WWF; Jill Bruce of Woman's Institute and Giles Watling local MP ask and answer questions on how the local area of Clacton and Tendring are tackling the climate crisis. Local school pupils and members of the community were given the opportunity to share their views and voice their concerns about waste, pollution and transport amongst other things. If your school or community group would like a FREE personalised Ink Bin, please do contact us via our homepage. We pride ourselves on education as a starting point and offer free assembly notes and much more on our SCHOOLS page. Every cartridge we received will be reused or recycled; keeping the world colourful!

We are thrilled to welcome Brightlingsea Recycling to our Ink Bin Family this week. Brightlingsea Recycling is a very active recycling group which supports Brightlingsea Primary School and the wider community to increase their sustainability efforts. Established nine months ago in the beautiful Essex village, the group currently have 417 members and actively reuse, reduce and recycle anything from clothes to old mattresses through the community social media forum. The local Tendring District Council came up against much negative press last year with regards to their waste management. According to The Ipswich Star, Tendring District Council recycled just 27% of its household waste between April 2017 and April 2018 - making it the 22nd least-recycling authority in the UK, the figures from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) showed. Many local groups, such as local and national heroes Tendring Primary Recycling, work tirelessly within the Tendring Community to collect and recycle items which would normally go to landfill. Brightlingsea are now amongst the latest regional group to introduce The Ink Bin Collection Programme. The Ink Bin are thrilled to be supporting both of these local groups in setting up an ink cartridge recycling programme within the district. Run by an ex teacher, we support communities to collect empty inkjet printer cartridges from their homes and possibly beyond. Recycling empty ink cartridges dramatically reduces landfill, reduces the need to produce new cartridges, reduces energy consumption and reduces the risk of ink leakage into water sources. An empty plastic ink cartridge can take up to 1000 years to degrade if left unrecycled! Furthermore, The Ink Bin pledge to pay charities for certain HP and Canon inkjet cartridges. We place Ink Bins in libraries, schools and community areas as a drop off point for collecting; helping in keeping the world colourful! With much of the country finding themselves either working from home or schooling their children at home,it has never been a better time to start a recycling programme. For more information on setting up your own recycling programme with us, please visit our website. The Ink Bin will provide your organisation with a FREE personalised Ink Bin as well as promotional materials.

One of our favourite parts of running The Ink Bin, our Essex-based family business, is getting our hands dirty! We pride ourselves on taking care of the whole process for our customers and keeping the job of collecting empty ink cartridges as easy as possible. Unlike many of our larger competitors, we will accept all types of home-use ink cartridge and we do not require our customers to log or list any of their collection. We firmly believe that it is our job to get the inky hands, not yours! We pledge that they will all be recycled rather than sent to landfill for up to 1000 years. Even better, The Ink Bin can pay charities for certain inkjet cartridges. It really is an incredibly easy process for any school or charity wishing to start up their own recycling scheme and a very satisfying way of potentially making hundreds of pounds. For more information on collecting home-use cartridges, please visit our website.

We are thrilled to have introduced The Ink Bin into three Morrisons stores within Essex and Suffolk. The Ink Bin will sit in the foyer of Morrisons Maldon, Morrisons Witham and Morrisons Hadleigh to support customers to recycle their empty home-use inkjet cartridges. It takes up to 1000 years for these to degrade in a landfill site and an estimated 30 million are sent to landfill annually. Many of the cartridges will be sent off for refilling- a process which can be repeated up to six times. For other cartridges, The Ink Bin pledge that they will all be recycled and returned to the circular economy. Emma at the Hadleigh store was delighted to receive the Bin and explained that customers have recently started asking for this service. If you are a local resident, please do pop down with your empty inkjet cartridges and help us in keeping the world colourful! Morrisons is a market leader in sustainability and recycling, as well as reduction of plastics. Morrisons are committed to making all of their own brand products 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. They are committed to removing or reducing unnecessary packaging, using recyclable or recycled material wherever possible, and working with suppliers on packaging innovation to ensure our packaging is only there to protect and preserve the product it contains. During 2019, the supermarket chain will extensively remove problematic plastics from Morrisons products such as black plastic, PVC and EPS. Morrisons was amongst the first major retailers to remove single use plastic bags at the checkout and the first to provide a reusable, recyclable paper alternative, receiving great appreciation from plastic-free groups across the UK. More details on their sustainability pledges can be found on their website.

Do you use a printer at home? Did you know that an inkjet printer cartridge takes up to 1000 years to decompose. With 30,000,000 being thrown to landfill annually, that is just not sustainable for our beautiful planet. With more and more awareness of plastic-reduced and plastic-free lifestyles, The Ink Bin offers a sustainable way to dispose of home-use inkjet cartridges. The Norfolk Hospice are now collecting empty ink cartridges for recycling within their nine charity shops and at The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House. All of the cartridges which they collect will be sent for recycling and some of these can actually be refilled up to six times and sent back to the market. For cartridges such as HP301 or Canon 545, The Ink Bin will give The Norfolk Hospice up to £1.50 each as a donation- every cartridge will make a difference in supporting their fabulous work. The Norfolk Hospice have Bins in all of their charity shops- Wisbech, Swaffham, Snettisham, King's Lynn, Hunstanton, Holt, Fakenham and Downham Market. For more details on their shops, click here. If you are a business that think you could collect ink cartridges on behalf of The Norfolk Hospice, please do request an Ink Bin directly from the website.

Well we didn’t find any ink cartridges along the way, but Rosie the Jack Russel and I thoroughly enjoyed our first plogging experience. Plogging is a combination of jogging and litter-picking and originated in Sweden in 2016. It’s free, easy and gives a huge sense of satisfaction at the end of a busy day. Rosie is used to stopping to collect litter on our daily dog walks- something I have often added to my social media pages to spread the word of keeping the world colourful. But today, we thought we would swap the wellies for the trainers in our daily ritual. I enjoy running but, I must admit that I do find it difficult to find the motivation to get started. After a long day of emails, meetings and travelling around in the car, we thought we would finally test out what plogging is all about. We are very lucky to live in a beautiful village in Essex but sadly our village does not escape the monster that is litter. We donned the running gear and took an old carrier bag out on our 3km run this evening with great excitement. We collected a large carrier bag full of rubbish, all of which told a story of how it got there. As we ran out of the village, we came across plastic wrapping that had obviously blown out of residents’ household waste bags. Sadly, these often end up buried within the verge and long forgotten. We also found odd and broken parts that had come free from their cars- the unscrewed aerial or the broken plastic trim from a bumper that had argued with the curb. What made me forlorn was the deliberate litter that we met along the way. As we exited the village centre and made our way along the back lanes of the village, the general clutter, the dropped tissue or the corner of a chocolate wrapper which had caught the wind as its owner munched, gradually dissipated. However, what was left tells a much more dissatisfying tale. We may live in a pretty village which boasts a plethora of picturesque sights but we are only around five miles from the nearest McDonalds drive through- just enough time for a person to eat their Big Mac, fries and coke and then decide they would rather throw their mess into the beautiful countryside than allow it to taint the smell of their car. The irony was not lost on me that, as I collected this rubbish, I could hear the strangely harmonic sound of the combine harvester working its magic a few fields away to reap the harvest that would produce the next sesame-seed bun for a McHappy customer. We also came across a freshly scrunched-and-chucked cigarette packet and the whole contents of someone’s packed lunch strewn in a pile on the floor. I mean- people- take the rubbish home! With my rant over, I return to the plog itself. I had concerns that the litter-picking may stop the flow and enjoyment of the run or that I would become entangled in the lead of a frustrated dog as I paused again and again. But I was pleasantly satisfied. Stopping every fifty yards or so did not cause any problem and, in fact, kept the dog on her toes- quite literally I guess. I found that I ran further this evening than I may usually do and that my mind was focused on the litter rather than the run itself. I did not punish or chastise myself for stopping as I felt the run was more purposeful than usual- rather than calorie-counting in my head, my mind was on the beautiful verges and sense of satisfaction for picking up a discarded balloon rather than leaving it for a small animal to find. Rosie was also happily engaged and there was a sense of needing to be more alert to my movements and thus getting more fulfilment and engagement from the run. The main success of anything is whether you are enthused enough to repeat the experience. For me, when I think of going for a quick jog, I usually huff to myself and think of it as something I should do rather than would like to do. Taking a carrier bag out gave the run purpose and definitely took pressure off the main task – destressing, burning a few calories and keeping in shape enough to justify my evening glass of wine. It gave me a sense of satisfaction, strange pleasure and it took the focus off me feeling sorry for myself that I’d put my body up to this out of choice. I have come home having done a longer but gentler run than usual, with a contented dog and an extra bag of goodies that will now be recycled rather than blot my homestead. So will I repeat the experience? I most certainly will and it shall no doubt encourage me to get my running shoes on more often. 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With the support of their local community, Honywood Science School in Coggeshall are now collecting empty inkjet printer cartridges as part of their environmental education studies. Honywood School have recently launched their school as a collection point and are now reaching out to businesses within the large Essex village to take their personalised Ink Bins as complimentary collecting points on their behalf. Local business, Heritage Estate Agents, are keen to support the cause- Director Andy McManus says "It's a win, win project- we are helping to reduce the single-use plastics going to landfill whilst helping raise funds for our local secondary school!" The Ink Bin are proud to be zero waste and, unlike most competitors, they collect every type of inkjet cartridge. They sort and test the cartridges themselves and most are sent for refilling. For HP and Canon inkjet cartridges collected, The Ink Bin can offer up to £1.50 each to the school. At present, thirty million cartridges are still sent to landfill annually, so there's lots of scope to raise valuable funds for the school. James Saunders, headteacher at Honywood School, plans to use any money raised from the project to fund climate enrichment activities such as beach cleans at the nearby Walton-on-the-Naze. The project will allow pupils at Honywood to work closely with local businesses and allows valuable entrepreneurial experience for the students. The project, led by The Ink Bin- a specialist inkjet recycling company, sits alongside their work with Unity Fridays. Unity Fridays is a collaboration between The Ink Bin and Youth Enrichment charity Unity Enterprises, which supports youngsters to enhance their connections with the business sector and their community through skills mentoring. Unity Fridays have recently announced their Eco Citizen Award, in association with Perrywood Nurseries, to recognise the outstanding contribution of young people towards environmental matters. The aim- supporting youngsters in engaging with their community, in tackling climate change and in keeping the world colourful!

The Ink Bin and Emmaus UK have teamed up with Bunzl Cleaning and Hygiene Supplies to help support schools children across Devon and Cornwall to help end homelessness. At present, there are currently 320,000 people living homeless in the UK- that's the equivalent to the whole population of Iceland! Emmaus cite that the main factor for their companions becoming homeless is relationship breakdown. Other factors that have a big impact are loss of a job, problems with drugs and alcohol and mental health issues. By recycling your inkjet cartridge, it could raise up to £1.50 each for Emmaus UK. The Ink Bin, a family run business founded by teacher and mother Becky Baines, offers a really easy way of supporting the end to homelessness. Becky passionately believes that all children should be taught about difficult issues, including homelessness and climate crisis but in a sensitive and age-appropriate way. The Colchester-based company was established with a view to nurturing the passion which youngsters have for keeping the world colourful (their tag line) and is rapidly growing to support businesses invested in lowering single-use plastic waste as well as charities hoping to increase their fundraising. Bunzl Plymouth will be distributing flyers to their customers across the region and then delivering The Ink Bin on behalf of the partnership. Bunzl will then collect the Bin once it is full with empty inkjet cartridges- utilising their empty delivery vehicles on the way back to the depot- a win, win, win! If you are a school wishing to register for The Ink Bin, an individual who uses inkjet cartridges or a company wishing to help homeless people across the UK, simply visit The Ink Bin's website to register your support. #homeless #homelessness #emmausuk #emmauscoventry #fundraising #charity #corporatepartnership #emptyvehicles #distributors #schools #education #inkjetcartridges #canon #hp #singleuseplastics #climatechange #climatecrisis