Reduce Garbage -- Recycle Your Inkjet Cartridges

Recycling empty inkjet cartridges is an easy way for anybody to help to reduce the garbage we create.

Here are 5 great reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.

Most importantly each recycled cartridge will save nearly 3 pounds of natural resources that are used for the production of a new cartridge.

Number two, 3.5 ounces of oil are saved fort each inkjet cartridge that is recycled. With the worldwide demand for oil on the rise and supplies shrinking, a little effort can make a significant impact over time.

The third reason to recycle empty inkjet cartridges, is because an inkjet cartridge will not break down for several hundred years once it makes it into the landfill. We generate enough garbage as it is. Did you know that over 300 million printer cartridges are thrown away each year? This generates 75,000 tons of waste annually.

Another good reason to recycle inkjet cartridges is because it can 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.

Lastly, recycling your empty inkjet cartridges is relatively easy. In fact, a lots of companies that offer remanufactured cartridges have their own recycling programs.

One of the ways 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 typically 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 included, 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.

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 customer will receive their refilled cartridge back, and will enjoy a good savings versus buying a new cartridge and reduce the strain on our environment in the process.

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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