The Impact Of Recycling Your Inkjet Cartridges

Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for anybody to help to reduce the natural resources we consume.

Here are 5 of the top reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.

To start with, each cartridge that is recycled saves almost 3 pounds of natural resources associated with the production of a new cartridge.

Next, an average inkjet cartridge takes an average of 3.5 oz. of oil to be manufactured. Demand is already very high, and is likely to only increase.

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. It is estimated that over 300 million printer cartridges are disposed of in landfills annually. That creates 75,000 tons of waste each year, which is equal in weight to more than 30,500 African Elephants!

Another good reason is that recycled and remanufactured inkjet cartridges simply saving money. There are recycling companies out there that want your empty cartridges. They take the empty cores and professionally refill and sell them back to users at a lower price than OEM. There are many quality companies that can do this and maintain high quality.

Reason number five. It's very easy to recycle an empty inkjet cartridge. In fact, many of the companies out there that offer remanufactured cartridges actually have their own recycling programs you can take advantage of.

An easy method for printer owners 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 generally a self-sealing plastic bag that is pre-addressed to a recycling company. The user puts their empty inkjet cartridge into the bag, seals it, and drops it off at a post office or any mailbox. The postage is already taken care of, and the whole process takes just a few seconds.

Another way to recycle 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, natural resources, reduces garbage and the strain on our landfills, and is the right thing to do.

Just because an empty inkjet cartridge is out of ink, doesn't mean it's broken.

It's just ready to be recycled.


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