* UPDATE School, business and charity recyclers, Sept 2025 UPDATE * We are updating our ‘INK’ cartridge price list from 1st September 2025. In line with current market values some of the ink cartridges that we pay for will be decreasing in value from the current price of £1.75 to £1.25. This will come into …
The ‘branded’ toners that we are able to recycle are found on our accepted toners list – https://www.emptiesplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Toners-accepted-for-recycling-with-Empties-Please-50p-per-branded-toner.pdf If you have ‘branded’ toner that we are unable to recycle try these helpful links – https://www.canon.co.uk/about-us/recycling/ https://epson-recycling.cycleon.eu/en/home https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk/en/support/return-your-toners/toner-take-back-service.html https://www.xerox.co.uk/en-gb/about/recycling https://www.toshibatec.co.uk/sustainability/recycling https://www.lexmark.com/en_gb/products/supplies-and-accessories/reuse-and-recycling-program/cartridge-collection-program.html https://www.brother.co.uk/recycling/toner-recycling https://www.sharp.co.uk/sustainability/toner-recycling-scheme https://www.konicaminolta.co.uk/en-gb/services/get-to-know-your-device/clean-planet-program https://www.ricoh-return.com/eu If you use the ‘cheaper compatible versions / remanufactured toners’ contact your …
We politely ask all our recyclers to check their bins are complaint with our safety measures before a collection, despite confirmation some recycle bins are coming back unchecked. Our measures are in place to ensure the safety of our staff and courier drivers. Please do check your bin is compliant before a pick up, failure …
We have a new member in our EP admin team! Introducing ‘Marlena’ As we are getting busier and busier in EP for some time needed an extra pair of hands in our admin dept. Originally from Poland Marlena has worked for Empties Please for 5 years and knows a thing or two about ink cartridges! …
Recycling update – Damaged INK and TONER cartridge returns – April 2023 Thank you so much to all our recyclers, you do an amazing job collecting used cartridges and raising money for your charities and schools! You have raised over £250,000 for your good causes and kept millions of cartridges out of landfill! From time …
We’re hoping you can help? We need your ‘INK’ cartridges! Thank you for your continued recycling with us over the past few years, it certainly been a challenge but you have helped refill 1000’s of cartridges and kept them out of landfill! Although recycling is going great at EP we are in desperate need of …
A recycling update from Empties Please – How Coronavirus is effecting our business We hope you are all staying well and safe during the Coronavirus outbreak. We continue to run our recycling services at Empties Please although a little differently than we are used to and navigating our way through a day at a time! …
Recycling news from JUNE 2019 Thank you for all your cartridge returns to us in June 2019! You helped keep 14,673 cartridges out of landfill! You helped raise £2,428.20 for your schools and good causes! We welcomed 49 new recyclers to Empties Please! We sent out 207 new and replacement recycle bins out to our …
POLICY UPDATE – Non return of WASTE TONER CONTAINERS – May 2019 We would like to thank all our recyclers for returning cartridges to us, every one we receive is kept out of landfill. At Empties Please we really appreciate the time and commitment it takes to recycle your cartridges. We do have an acceptance …
Recycling news from February 2019 Thank you to all our recyclers for sending back 1000’s of cartridges to us and keeping them out of landfill. You helped us to recycle 13,149 cartridges. 54 new recyclers joined Empties Please in February! Our recyclers raised a grand total of £1,496.40 in February! Our top 5 recyclers were .. …
Due to on-going changes in product contents and to keep in line with current legislation, from time to time we are required to review the composition of products that we can recycle. For full details of current exclusions please see the details of the scheme that you are looking to participate in. Empties Please reserves the right to withdraw payment for individual products with immediate effect.
To comply with current legislation "Empties Please" does not require a Waste Management Licence for its cartridge recovery activities. The Waste Management Licencing Regulations 1994 under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 allows for exemptions to the requirement to have a Waste Management Licences for certain low risk activities. However to comply with current legislation "Empties Please" does not require a Waste Carriers Licence for its cartridge recovery activities.
The Environment Agency has clarified that "secure storage and manual sorting of waste toner (printer and ink) cartridges destined for recovery" is classed as a "Low risk waste activity" and therefore exempt from the requirement to have a Waste Management Licence.
Empties Please is a trading name of Empties Please Ltd, Registered number: 7069773, VAT Number: 985854649, Registered Office: Unit 13, Orion Park, University Way, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 6NG
