Castle Ink’s college scholarship programme is offered to students in the USA who support green causes.
The scholarship has been going for four years, with The Recycler reporting on the 2013 and 2011 campaigns, and offers US high-school students the opportunity to win a $1,000 (€740) scholarship for college, with the fourth iteration of the scholarship opened to “students of all levels of academic achievement, increasing access to the scholarship opportunity”.
The company offers the chance to win the scholarship to students if they participate in an accredited college programme in 2014, and either “build something out of used ink cartridges” or use social media to present “something inspirational about recycling and how they reduce, reuse, and recycle”, with the main thrust of the presentation to “driv[e] awareness of recycling”.
Castle Ink added that it “has the ability to reach a large amount of students and parents”, and that the scholarship “remind[s] students, in a creative way, to be aware of their impact on the environment”. Lauren Elward, Castle Ink’s CEO, stated: “Supporting a student’s ambition to achieve a college degree is of utmost importance. I am so pleased that we’re finally able to take steps to support education.”