The Oxford High School Environmental Club is celebrating Earth Day and Earth Week by recycling empty printer cartridges and used cell phones in an effort to keep those items out of landfills.
You can help by taking these items to the following drop off points in our community as local businesses are helping to support this effort. From April 19 – May 7 you can dispose of your used printer cartridges and cell phones at:
Patterson’s Pharmacy
Oxford Party Store
Ace Hardware
McDonald’s in Oxford
Oxford Twp. Parks and Recreation
The cartridges and cell phones collected by OHS Environmental Club are sent to FundingFactory where the cartridges are inspected and then sold to reputable recycling companies to be remanufactured. These cartridges are later sold to secondary markets, including retailers and office-supply stores.
Cell phones that enter the Fundingfactory warehouse are either donated to nonprofit markets such as women’s shelters, sold to refurbishers who sell them back into the domestic market, or sold to foreign markets.
More than 300 million printer cartridges and 30 million cell phones that are thrown away each year.
As a reward for their efforts for participating in this recycling program with FundingFactory, the Environment Club will earn free Technology Equipment for the high school.