Recycle Your Empty Printer Ink Cartridges

Date: 2010-02-08 18:02:20

By li baocai

Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for anybody to help to reduce the strain on our environment. Here are 5 of the top reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.

Shockingly, almost 3 entire pounds of resources involved in production are saved when a cartridge is recycled.

Secondly, each inkjet cartridge that is recycled also saves an average of 3.5 ounces of oil. With the massive global demand for oil, supplies will eventually become more scarce.

The third reason you should recycle or reuse your empty inkjet cartridges is to reduce the strain on local landfills. An inkjet cartridge does not biodegrade in a landfill, as other waste will over time. Once a cartridge is discarded, it will be there for several hundred years. Estimates are that over 300 million printer cartridges are thrown into landfills every year. To put things into perspective, the 75,000 tons of waste it generates is equal in weight to over 30,000 African elephants.

Another good reason is that recycled and remanufactured inkjet cartridges simply saving money. Recycling your empty cartridges provides empty cores to cartridge remanufacturing companies that in turn, professionally refill and sell to users at a discounted price. Consumers will see the same reliability, performance and quality as using an original brand OEM cartridge but at a lower cost.

Finally, recycling your empty inkjet cartridge can be quick and painless. Many companies out there that sell cartridges locally or online have her recycling program.

An easy method for end users to recycle inkjet cartridges is through the use of postage paid return envelopes that are sometimes included with an online inkjet cartridge purchase.

A return mailer (recycle envelope) is usually a self-sealing plastic bag that is pre-addressed to a recycling company. The person puts their empty inkjet cartridge into the bag, seals it, and drops it off at a post office or any mailbox. The postage is pre-paid, and the whole process takes just a few seconds.

Another method of recycling is through the use of an inkjet cartridge refilling service such as the Jetpak mailer program.

The Jetpak mailer program works like this. A customer purchases a recycling kit (mailer) in advance. When the customer runs out of the ink they put the empty cartridge into a postage pre-paid return mailing envelope and simply drop it in the mail. In a couple of days when the cartridge refilling company receives your cartridge, they will professionally inspect it, clean it, professionally refill it, and mail it back to the customer.

In about one week the refilled cartridge is returned. This provides a big savings over buying a new cartridge and also lowers the strain on our landfills.

Why recycle? Why not recycle?

It saves money, saves resources, reduces garbage, and promotes a responsible lifestyle. Just because an empty inkjet cartridge is out of ink, doesn't mean it's broken. It just means that its prime for recycling.


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