Shipping Guidelines for Recycling

Please follow these shipping guidelines to ensure the safe arrival of your cartridges, cell phones, laptops, and small electronics at the GreenSchoolProject Recycling Center. We want to make sure that we receive everything you send us!

Green is Good! Please discard all white
shipping labels and only use the
GREEN labels to send your used
printer cartridges, cell phones, laptops, and small electronics. GreenSchoolProject shipping label

Guidelines:

Locate a sturdy box that meets these requirements:
- No larger than 20"W x 20"H x 24"D
- Maximum 40 pounds when full
Pack cartridges, cell phones, laptops, and small electronics using the 20/20 Rule.
Fill extra space with newspaper and securely tape your box closed.
Apply a GREEN preprinted shipping label to each box and leave for your UPS driver or take it to a UPS center. Call 1.800.742.5877 or visit www.ups.com for locations.

Please note that you should not call UPS for pickup, since they will charge a mandatory fee which cannot be waived and will not be reimbursed by GreenSchoolProject. Please also remember not to send toner tanks, cell phone chargers, cell phone accessories, or extra batteries.

Because we always encourage recycling, please feel free to use any sturdy box that you may have on hand to ship your recyclables in. If you’re in need of boxes, please call us for information on how to obtain more at 1.877.882.5032.

GreenSchoolProject is not responsible for the deletion of confidential data on the products. You are responsible for all confidential data that may be stored on the products. Before you ship the products for recycling GreenSchoolProject strongly recommends that you:

back up or transfer all your data prior to deletion
remove any removable media such as CD’s diskettes, or PC Cards
use a secure file deletion utility which ensures that the data on the hard disk drives and any other storage devices in the products cannot be recovered by successively writing binary ones and zeros over files to be deleted

GreenSchoolProject does not accept liability for lost or confidential data or any software.

20/20 Rule

Whether you use your own boxes or Recycle Rewards boxes, please use the 20/20 Rule:

Option 1: Send a minimum of 20 mixed itemss
i.e. 10 laser cartridges + 5 inkjet cartridges + 3 cell phones + 2 iPods = 20 items

Option 2: Send a minimum of 20lbs. of mixed items (Max. 40 lbs.)