UK recycling company’s recycling scheme raises £920 for Lincolnshire charity.
A cheque for £920 ($1,426/€1,161) was presented to Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Services (LIVES) by The Recycling Factory after the company spent a year raising money for the charity through the recycling of inkjet and toner cartridges, as well as other electronic devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras.
LIVES provides vital life-saving pre-hospital treatment for patients and is run by voluntary qualified health professionals as well as LIVES trained members of the public. The charity has been established for over 35 years, with 161 responder units currently across Lincolnshire and 21 fire and rescue co-responder units.
As it costs almost £1 million ($1.5 million/€1.2 million) annually to keep LIVES going, The Recycling Factory decided to partner with the charity, which helps to save around 200 lives per year.
Donna Wingfield, Business Development Manager for The Recycing Factory commented: “We are thrilled to work in partnership with LIVES and help to raise funds for such a worthy charity which operates on our doorstep. The £920 raised so far this year, exceeds the total amount raised during 2011 by fifty per cent and demonstrates how well the LIVES supporters have embraced the recycling scheme”.
The company’s recycling scheme saw LIVES receiving a donation for each cartridge or electronic device that was able to be recycled.
The Recycling Factory have raised money for a number of charities, and since October have donated to the British Heart Foundation, Mencap, Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI), and National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). It also raised over £350,000 ($542,000/€442,000) for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) over a six year period between 2005 and 2011.