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The charity's Recycling Appeal has raised ?300,000 (?201,000) simply through the collection of old mobile phones and used printer cartridges, items normally thrown in the bin or the back of a drawer. Products recycled by the appeal's supporters are turned into vital funds by recycling experts Redeem, the official collectors for Temple Street which cares for over 123,000 sick children each year.

Monies raised by the Temple Street Recycling Appeal will go towards the development of a Cystic Fibrosis and Respiratory Resource Unit for the hospital. Cystic Fibrosis is a life threatening, recessively inherited disease that affects many organs of the body but causes most problems in the lungs, intestines, liver and pancreas. This resource unit is particularly important since children with CF need to be segregated from each other as to not spread diseases. The new CF unit will incorporate dedicated individual out patient treatment rooms with a separate waiting area for children and their families. The cost of this project is ?2.7m (?1.8m).

Denise Fitzgerald, CEO of the Fundraising Office, Temple Street said:

?We have watched this campaign go from strength to strength and to have raised ?300,000 is a huge achievement. Many thanks to all of those who have recycled their old phone handsets and printer cartridges and of course, we would ask people to continue to support this worthwhile cause.?

Supporting the Temple Street Recycling Appeal is also an easy way to help our environment. If thrown in the bin mobile phones and printer cartridges end up in landfill where the toxic substances they contain can leak into the soil surrounding landfill sites, damaging plant and wildlife. There is also trouble at the top of the site where decomposing waste produces the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane; so the less waste we put in landfill the better it is for climate change and Temple Street.