It's time to GO GREEN in your office!

The Department of Local Government and the Environment (DLGE) provides and services recycling banks for public recycling sites (e.g. Tesco, Grandstand etc) around the island. In 2008, we collected 1620 tonnes paper, 1400 tonnes glass, 25 tonnes aluminium & 4.3 tonnes dry-cell batteries for recycling. This year, we hope to exceed these figures. In addition, we have set up a kerbside recycling scheme for half of the households on the Island, which commenced in November 2008. However, unfortunately the DLGE is unable to provide paper / glass / aluminium / battery recycling bins for offices or workplaces as they are not designated for ‘domestic’ use, but the good news is that help is at hand and we are delighted to provide the following information regarding local initiatives:

EcoPrint

A newly launched green office initiative called `Ecoprint’ has been developed on the island by two local companies working in partnership together: Home Strategic and Big Fish. It offers any organisation, school or business a free print audit in terms of their current work, across a range of internal and external print requirements as well as options for going green. The scheme is designed to save money, reduce environmental impact and improve an organisation's green credentials. Call Big Fish (Tel: 661331) to arrange your free audit. For more infomation, click on the EcoPrint & Print Audit documant at the bottom of this page.

Paper recycling

Confidential & non-confidential paper - Doxbond (Tel: 670151 / 413097)

Confidential paper - Storall (Tel: 663913) & Securicor (Tel: 649004) ·

Plastic bottles

Buck Recycling (Tel: 825826)

Glass recycling

Manx Waste Solutions (Tel: 661569 / 495327)

Lamp and bulb recycling

Luminaires (Tel: 665801) or visit their website's recycling page here.

Dry-cell battery recycling

Costain's Scrap Metal Merchant ( Tel: 801337)

Office consumable recycling (e.g. cartridges / mobile phones)

Inkjet cartridges / mobile phones

The DLGE's Recycling Team has a selection of freepost envelopes for a range of charites (e.g. Hospice Isle of Man, Manx Wildlife Trust, Dogs Trust, WSPA) which allow you to recycle your phones and inkjet cartridges and raise money at the same time. If you would like some envelopes, please contact us on 686540 and we would be happy to send some to you. If you have a charity that provides freepost envelopes and you would like us to keep them in stock for distribution, we would be pleased to hear from you (Tel 686540).

Toner cartridges

BigFish (Tel: 661331) will collect used Printer and Copier cartridges. BigFish provides an in-house recycling service at its Onchan premises for toner cartridges . If you are a BigFish client then this service is free of charge. If not then BigFish are very happy to collect your empties but there is a charge of £2.00 per cartridge to cover costs. For more information, please click on the Big Fish Toner Recyclling document at the bottom of this page. Any toners that cannot be recycled on-island will be sent to a company called WasteCare in the UK. WasteCare recycles the toners into garden furniture and traffic cones.

Water

The Isle of Man Water Authority has lots of tips to help save water (e.g. in toilets / urinals etc). Contact Water Authority Customer Services (Tel: 695954) for more information.