March 2006
Ewloe Green Raise £1052!
Ewloe Green County Primary School, Flintshire, have recently raised £1052 through the Giveback Recycling Scheme. Children and parents recycled more than 200 mobile phones to raise money for their school through the initiative in conjunction with CMR.
Lorna Sheridan, of Ewloe Green School says, “ At Ewloe Green we are an extremely eco-friendly school and recycle as much as possible. We allowed the collection to run for 5 weeks and by the closing date had collected 224 phones which were promptly collected by Giveback. Within a couple of days we were given the brilliant news that we had raised £1052. This far exceeded our expectations and will be put to great use updating the ICT equipment within our school. The whole process was simple, taking very little time and costing nothing, and we intend on running the scheme again around Christmas.”
The 224 mobile phones that Ewloe Green School collected were of all shapes and sizes, some working and some not. These were collected by Corporate Mobile Recycling who paid for all of the working handsets and recycled all of the broken and obsolete models. In total the school recycled over 56kg of potential electrical waste!
To find out how to recycle with Giveback click here or call Jessica Hinchliffe on 0207 404 6443.
Corporate Mobile Recycling (CMR) have six years experience in the mobile recycling market with processing facilities in London and Madrid. CMR recycled 500,000 mobile phones last year saving a potential 96 tonnes of mobile phones and accessories from landfill. CMR work closely with schools, charities and corporates providing innovative and well resourced schemes for organisations who want to recycle and raise money.
For further information relating to CMR please refer to the web addresses below or contact Jessica Hinchliffe on 0207 404 6443.
www.cmrecycling.co.uk
www.giveback.co.uk
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