Return Your Empty Inkjet/Laser Cartridges and Unwanted Mobile Phones To Raise Extra Funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society

Howard Lake | 11 May 2007 | Newswire

Multiple Sclerosis is the most common disabling neurological disease affecting young adults between 20 to 40 years of age in the UK, with an estimated 85,000 people in the UK currently affected. People like Carol and Keith.
Carol’s story – Carol is a young woman whose outdoor mobility had decreased due to MS. Her occupational therapist recommended she would benefit from a scooter. Her local MS Society branch was able to offer a grant of £300. Her application was then forwarded to the MS Society National Centre where a further grant was awarded to meet the £599 shortfall. Carol’s scooter was purchased and she has now regained much more of her independence.
That grant could so easily be funded by the return of just 600 suitable empty inkjet cartridges – the simple expedient of recycling a piece of rubbish usually destined for the bin or ultimately a valuable landfill site. Consequently, 600 bits of rubbish could make the difference between a life restricted and a life set free.
Keith’s story – Unwanted mobile phones, especially those still working, could make the difference to people like Keith whose secondary progressive MS, necessitated the purchase of an electric wheelchair with a head control unit. Could your old mobile end up in a landfill, or help to make money to assist more young men like Keith?
For each suitable empty inkjet cartridge returned via the MS Society’s free recycling scheme, Environmental Business Products (EBP) will donate £1.00 to the charity; it could be £10.00 for an unwanted mobile phone in working order. Seek out those ’empties’ and ‘unwanteds’ that lurk in every office drawer, from printers at home, via other local businesses, family and friends. It is estimated that almost everyone has an unused, unwanted mobile phone at the back of a cupboard somewhere, and that an extra 22 million inkjet cartridges could be recycled every year in the UK. So not only will you help to raise funds for respite care, grants for home adaptations and mobility aids, education, training and a wide range of valuable information sources, you will also be doing your bit for the environment.
For more information, to obtain a supply of Freepost recycling bags or to arrange the collection of more than 10 larger laser cartridges call Environmental Business Products on tel. 0800 435 576 or visit www.inkagain.co.uk. For more information on the Multiple Sclerosis Society contact Barbara Spreadborough –

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Pictured – Sherine Krause, Director of Marketing and Fundraising, Multiple Sclerosis Society
For further press information on Environmental Business Products Limited, please contact David Alder, EBP, tel. 0208 838 6888, mobile: 07770 721128 or email

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.