Your Discarded Ink Cartridges, Laser Toners and Cell Phones
Can Save Discarded Tigers
And Other Big Cats!
YOU CAN DONATE TO BIG CAT RESCUE AND HELP SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
ALL AT NO COST TO YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION!
RECYCLE YOUR INK JET CARTRIDGES, TONERS and CELL PHONES
Big Cat Rescue works with a recycler. You can help our environment
by recycling that generates donations to Big Cat Rescue. For each item
received, the vendor sends us a donation, typically from $.10 to $1.00
on inkjet cartridges. laser toners and cell phones. Through
the wonderful participation of many individual and business supporters,
this program has generated over $50,000 to help care for
the cats!
Recycling is very simple. Email us at ink@BigCatRescue.org with
your postal address. We will have our Erie, PA vendor send you 5 prepaid UPS labels. They can be put on a box and brought to any UPS drop off location. The box can also be given to a UPS driver when they deliver to a business.
We have changed recycle vendors, so please discontinue using any USPS prepaid plastic remailer bags or FedEx labels with a CA address!
PLEASE NOTE TWO IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS:
1) Minimum shipping quantities . Minimum quantity for returns in a carton is 18 inkjets OR 8 laser toners (in OEM cartons), OR 8 cell phones or a combination of these. You may mix them, but please wrap inkjets/phones/toners separately within the returned carton.
It is only economical for the vendor if you save up until you have a minimum of 18 cartridges. Otherwise the cost exceeds the value and it does not help. If you have only a few inkjets, phones or toners and would like to donate to BCR, they may be mailed to us (address below); we'll send them back in our bulk shipments.
2) Accepted kinds of ink cartridges, laser toners and cell phones . Many kinds of cartridges, toners and cell phones are recyclable. To see if what you have is on the list, please visit http://www.BigCatRecycle.com. If you send in items that are not recyclable we do not receive any funds.
For school projects and organization participation please contact education@bigcatrescue.org.
This is a wonderful way to help the cats and save the environment at the same time at no cost to you. Thanks very much for supporting the cats in this way!
PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHERS YOU KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AS WELL!
If you have any questions or problems, please email us at ink@BigCatRescue.org and we'll do our best to help. Thanks!
Also, if you live in WY,CO,NE,AZ,NM,TX,FL,LA and shop at Albertson's supermarket, there is another way you can create donations at not cost to you. For details click HERE
Click here to see how you can also donate at NO COST by getting a Capital One Big Cat Rescue credit card with an image of one of our cats on it. 1% of your purchases are donated to the sanctuary.
Did you know these recycle facts?
More than 54 million households, roughly 55% of the total population, own a home computer.
The average consumer purchases 2-6 printer cartridges per year.
More than 85% of used printer cartridges are simply tossed in the trash.
Every 2 seconds a printer cartridge is thrown away in the United States alone.
That's 1,800 cartridges per minute, 108,000 per hour, almost 3 million per day!
Recovering discarded printer cartridges for recycling would prevent more than 570,000 tons of plastics from entering the waste stream. Save the environment and save the big cats! Start recycling today!