Lasting Impressions
What do you do with your ink cartridges? I confess to buying new ink cartridges for our computer at Voyageur but I am sure to bring them to the kid’s school for them to be recycled. My favorite daily e-mail provided some information for me that might just get me filling my own.
The Bite
Ink cartridges will – they take eons to decompose. Recycle your old ones, and next time you buy, go with refilled cartridges, which work just like conventional ones and cost less.
The Benefits
- Saving money. Recycled cartridges cost up to 75% less than new ones.
- Smaller landfills. An average ink cartridge takes about 450 years to decompose.
- Conserving oil. Recycling an ink cartridge can save 3 qt of oil.
- Simplicity. Ordering refills online and mailing in your used ones is 99.9% easier than getting your ex-lover’s name removed from your butt.
- If 10,000 Biters recycle their old laser cartridge, we’ll save enough refined oil to fill 1,500 water-cooler jugs.
Wanna Try?
- Cartridge World – enter your zip to find a location near you. Also provides cartridge-recycling bins for your office.
- Carrot Ink – buy remanufactured ink cartridges for every style of printer online.
- FundingFactory – schools and non-profits can earn free electronics or cash by collecting ink cartridges for recycling.
- HP Supplies Recycling – HP users can request free, postage-paid mailers to send in used cartridges.