Recycle Your Inkjet Cartridges - It Helps

Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for anybody to help to reduce the impact on our landfills.

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

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

Next, 3.5 ounces of oil are saved fort each inkjet cartridge that is recycled. This can really add up over time.

Another reason you should recycle your empty inkjet cartridges, is to lower the amount of garbage. It takes several hundred years for an inkjet cartridge to break down. 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.

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 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 usually 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 pre-paid, and the whole process takes just a few seconds.

If you are going to need more ink, a great way to recycle is through the use of an inkjet cartridge refilling service such as the Jetpak mailer program.

Here's how the Jetpak mailer program works. First, you purchase a Jetpak prepaid mailer. Once your cartridge runs out of ink, you simply place your empty cartridge into the plastic bag provided, include your return address, and drop it in the mail. Once the refilling company receives your mailer, they will professionally inspect, clean, and refill your cartridge. They will run a print test, and if everything checks at OK they will mail it back to you. If the cartridge does not pass their print test, they will mail you a credit voucher to return another empty cartridge free of charge.

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 to be recycled.