We offer free better-than-recycling services in the π¬π§ UK, π¨π¦ Canada, π¦πΊ Australia and the πΊπΈ United States to pick up your full & unused printer cartridges and find new homes for them.
And we plant 2 trees π²π² on your behalf with our partner charity Trees for the Future for every unused cartridge we receive — a unique & tangible opportunity to offset your CO2 footprint!
Since 2015 thousands of individuals & businesses have rehomed unwanted printer cartridges with us & planted an entire forest of trees — 145,862 to date!
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32,288
cartridges
repurposed by our 1,000s of supporters instead of recycled
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145,862
trees
planted with our charity partner Trees For The Future
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26,255
tons of CO2
captured by these trees based on 180kg CO2 sequestered over a tree's lifetime
We're proud to be an official partner of Trees For The Future — they've planted over 344 million trees in total working with local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to plant trees in 'forest gardens' that provide food, shelter, and a future for their families.
You're probably very familiar with recycling empty cartridges — after all it can seem like every second week we need to replace them...
But in our experience around 1 in 4 offices & homes also has 1 or more unused printer cartridge just gathering dust...
Recycling these unused cartridges is a huge waste of resources — they can be used as they are without a wasteful recycling process — and that's what our better-than-recycling service is about.
Maybe you recently upgraded your printer & have some remaining toners for the old printer? — Or clearing out cupboards and discovered ink cartridges you'd long forgotten about?
β οΈ Don't recycle them with your empty cartridges, don't return them to the manufacturer for recycling!
Better that these find a second life with somebody else who has the same printer!
2015 — On a cold, wet day in Scotland (which is, let's face it, almost every day in Scotland), we decided it was a real shame that cartridges were being junked, when they could have had a second life...
Several cups of tea later, all while watching the rain drip off the Scots Pines, cartridgeforest was born — we would offer to plant trees in exchange for them in partnership with Trees For The Future...
... we'd finally get people more enthusiastic about recycling, help offset the CO2 emissions of all the printing we do, and close the circle on those idiots who print out every email they receive.
2020 — we celebrated our π 50,000th tree planted & decided to focus only on handling unused cartridges.
2021 — we opened the service up to the πΊπΈ United States and π¨π¦ Canada to help improve the environment around the world.
2022 — we reached the π 100,000 trees level — a great landmark, and around 18,000 tons of CO2 sequestered.
2024 & onwards... we opened up to π¦πΊ Australia, and hope our Aussie friends can help us reach 150,000 trees this year...!
in Salt Lake City, UT donated 5 HP toners
& planted 10 trees
April 12, 2024
in Edmonton, AB donated 13 Xerox photocopier items
& planted 26 trees
April 11, 2024
in UK donated 5 Epson inks
& planted 10 trees
April 10, 2024
in Dallas, TX donated 27 Epson inks
& planted 54 trees
April 10, 2024
in Toronto, ON donated 8 HP laserjet toners
& planted 16 trees
March 27, 2024
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