ActionAid Recycling

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ActionAid Recycling was formed by ActionAid in 1993 to raise funds for the charity by recycling used inkjet and toner cartridges and unwanted mobile phones. Since then, millions of printer cartridges and mobile phones have been kept out of landfill sites and recycled.

ActionAid Recycling is based in Bristol, England.

Collecting from private individuals to giants like the BBC, Ted Baker, Arsenal Football Club and Disney, ActionAid Recycling provides one of the leading charity recycling schemes in the UK.

[edit] History

1993: ActionAid's National Recycling Unit (NRU) is born and established as an integral part of the charity.
1995: ActionAid's National Recycling Unit becomes an official UK empty consumables collector for Xerox.
1999: ActionAid Recycling begin to sell both original brand and remanufactured toner and inkjet cartridges.
2002: Diversification into mobile phone recycling. Comedian Dave Gorman helps launch the new business venture with the strapline: "The Dave Gorman Mobile Phone Recycling Experiment How do you Recycle Yours?"

Xerox became the first medalists of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games when John Leonard was presented with a Green Medal Award for Xerox's recycling efforts by Jean Mabiza of the Zambian Badminton Team and Geoff Perriman of ActionAid Recycling.
2003: Under a mutual agreement, the NRU separates from the charity to become an ActionAid fundraising organisation in its own right. It is relaunched as ActionAid Recycling.; Both the warehouse and administration function relocate to new premises and for the first time are under the same roof.
2004: The empty cartridge market experiences a major slump in the UK. A number of leading competitors go out of business but due to good management and difficult decisions taking, ActionAid Recycling rides out the storm.
2005: ActionAid Recycling sponsors the first UK Mobile Phone Throwing Championships in London. The ladies' world record is broken and held by an English Woman - if only for a brief time!; ActionAid Recycling launches its first national Mobile Phone Amnesty campaign, which proves an overwhelming success.