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Turn old mobiles into cash

03 February 2009

YOUR Chronicle’s Sunshine Fund is also going green for its 80th anniversary year

The charity, which raises cash to support disabled children in the North East, will recycle your old mobile phones and printer ink cartridges to generate funds.
Sunshine Fund bosses want you, Chronicle readers, to clear out your drawers and get rid of those discarded mobiles and empty cartridges, as part of its Get The Recycling Bug campaign.

You can send your items to us, or drop them off in the special bins at the reception to Evening Chronicle HQ and the Sunshine Fund will do the rest.
They will be boxed up and sent away to companies who will recycle them and give cash back to the Sunshine Fund.
For every phone recycled the charity will get around £1 and it will also earn 25p per cartridge.

The phones will either be repaired or reconditioned for reuse, possible in developing countries, or used for parts and the components recycled.
The printer cartridges collected through the Recycling Appeal may be sold to remanufacturers who recondition and refill them.

Sunshine Fund manager Jo Harris said: “This is a great opportunity to help the environment and raise money at the same time.
“We hope local people will support our campaign and help us raise plenty of cash to improve the lives of disabled children in our region.”
The campaign will be running for the whole of 2009, as part of the Sunshine Fund’s 80th anniversary celebrations.
Businesses and schools are being asked to take part and collect phones and cartridges to support the campaign.

For more information contact Emma Jamieson on (0191) 201-6090 or emma.jamieson@ncjmedia.co.uk
You can send your cartridges and phones to The Evening Chronicle Sunshine Fund, Groat Market, Newcastle, NE1 1ED


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