Recycling old mobile phones and empty printer cartridges is one of the simplest and easiest ways for charities to raise revenue.

Reclaim-it (www.reclaim-it.com) offers free collection boxes and reply paid envelopes, allowing charities to get the full value of the phones and used toner or ink cartridges.

Free recycling for all your printer cartridges and old mobile phones

Dogs Trust have teamed up with Reclaim-it to operate a recycling scheme that will benefit the dog charity.

Dogs Trust says “In the UK alone, over 2 million printer cartridges are thrown away and 15 million mobiles are left, unwanted, each year! Every cartridge thrown away could be feeding a dog for a week and every mobile left in a draw could purchase much needed veterinary equipment.”

Raising money for Dogs Trust via recycling is easy. All you have to do is collect your unwanted mobile phones and used printer ink or toner cartridges and instead of throwing them away, recycle them as follows:

1) Request a free-post envelope. Dogs Trust will send you a free post envelope - all you need do is pop your item inside and post to reclaim-it for free.

2) Perhaps you work in a small office or a shop where you could display a box of free post envelopes for your customer and colleagues use.

3) Or does your workplace go through a lot of cartridges? If so, why not order a cartridge collection box for your workplace. When it's full all you need to do is email Dogs Trust and they will organise collection and a new one to be sent out straight away.

This can all be done via the Dogs Trust website via their Recycle with Reclaim-It page. Dogs Trust will receive a donation for every phone and cartridge sent in.