How your old mobile phone and empty inkjet cartridge can help Midshires Search & Rescue Midshires is a lowland search and rescue organisation. We can be called out by the police (we are used by the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police forces, and by the Milton Keynes division of Thames Valley police), county Emergency Planning Officers or other search teams. Our role is to assist in the search for members of the public who have gone missing, particularly if they are deemed to be especially vulnerable, and to assist county teams in dealing with other types of civil emergencies. Donate Old Phones or Used Inkjet Cartridges If you are about to throw away an old, unwanted mobile phone or used inkjet cartridge - STOP! You can now send mobile phones for re-cycling, at no cost to yourself, and know that not only is the phone going to be put to good use in overseas countries (or properly boken up and recycled for its component parts if it is not usable), but that each one returned will raise some money to help support Midshires Search & Rescue. Similarly, old inkjet cartridges (most makes except Epson, and no laser cartridges please) can be sent for refurbishing and refilling. Each one will earn £1 for Midshires funds. To recycle your phone or inkjet cartridge, click here and fill out the simple form to enable recycling envelopes to be sent out to you. Once you have the bags, simply put the phone or cartridge in the envelope and pop into the post. There is no cost to you as the envelopes are to a Freepost address. That's all there is to it.