Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for us to help to reduce the impact on our landfills.
Here the top 5 reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.
To begin with, 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. Did you know that each year over 300 million printer cartridges are thrown away? This equates into about 75,000 tons of garbage. To give you an idea how much that is, that he is equal in late to nearly 30,000 full grown African elephants.
The forth reason is that recycled and remanufactured inkjet cartridges save 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.
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.
One of the ways for people 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 most commonly 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 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 a week the completed cartridge is returned to the customer at a big savings over buying a new cartridge. This method also lowers the amount of garbage going into our landfills.
Why recycle? Why not recycle?
It saves you money, saves natural resources, reduces the amount of garbage produced, and is the right thing to do for our environment.
Just because an empty inkjet cartridge is out of ink, doesn't mean it's broken.
It just needs recycling.
