Here the top 5 reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.
Shockingly, almost 3 entire pounds of resources involved in production are saved when a cartridge is recycled.
Number two, for every inkjet cartridge that is recycled, an average of 3.5 oz. of oil will be saved. Because of the worldwide demand for oil, a little conservation will make a dramatic impact over the long run.
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.
The forth reason is the buying remanufactured (recycled) inkjet cartridges continue 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 most popular methods 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 generally a self-sealing plastic bag that is pre-addressed to a recycling company. The consumer 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.
With the Jetpak mailer program, the customer purchases a special refilling service mailer in advance. When the customer runs out of ink, they place the empty cartridge into the postage paid mailing box and drop it in the mail. When the cartridge refilling company receives the empty cartridge, the refilling service cleans, inspects, and professionally refills the cartridges and mails 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 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.
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