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OMISTA Credit Union is a proud supporter of the thINK FOOD program throughout Greater Moncton. thINK FOOD is a project to alleviate hunger and divert waste from landfill sites by raising funds for local food banks. The funds are raised through the process of recycling used printer cartridges and cell phones. When a collection box is full, it is sent to a central location where the cartridges and phones are sorted and sold to the remanufacturing industry. This industry turns them into refurbished products for consumers.

Through this process, thINK FOOD is able to generate funds for alleviating hunger, and operate at no cost to food banks. This allows food banks to spend all related funds on their greatest necessities.

How does this help the Environment?

• Global: 800 million people around the world currently use cell phones. Canada: Millions of out of service cell phone handsets are stock piled in homes and offices.
• Cell phone users change handsets an average of every 18 months.
• The supply of cell phones is driven by faster change in technology and consumer demand for additional features.
• Nickel-cadmium batteries used in cell phones are considered hazardous waste.
• Reusing cell phones means that expensive mineral and mining processes with harsh environmental effects can be lessened or avoided.
• Cell phones contain toxic elements like arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, antimony, lead and mercury. These toxins leak into the ground water and infect everything from wildlife to drinking water.

• In the recycling process, the entire cartridge is reused because it is ‘remanufactured’ to be a new cartridge.
• There are over 100 million printer cartridges used in Canada each year. Only 5-10% of these are presently recycled.
• 300 million laser and inkjet cartridges go to landfills every year in North America.
• The plastic used in each cartridge takes more than 1000 years to decompose.
• Stacked end to end, cartridges thrown away in North America in one year would cover a distance of over 38,000 km - enough to circle the earth.
• Two and a half ounces of oil are used to make the plastic for every inkjet cartridge produced.

At every OMISTA branch you can drop off your used cell phones and ink cartridges. Join us in the fight against hunger for the people in our community.