We’re slowly, but surely, becoming a society that cares about being “green”. What does being “green” mean? Being green means that you are doing everything that you can to help the environment. If you’re shutting off the lights when you leave a room, you’re being green. If you turn off the water while you’re brushing your teeth, you’re being green as well. Many people don’t realize that you can be green by recycling your ink cartridges.
In today’s highly technological world, we all use printers, which means that we all need to have an ink cartridge in order to print out anything that we’re looking to print. An ink cartridge is made of plastic and is thrown away a lot. In fact, one estimate states that over thirteen print cartridges are thrown away in the United States every second, which equals about 375 million print cartridges thrown away into landfills every year. These plastics take thousands of years to break down and decompose. This is surely not what being green is about.
It’s absolutely possible to recycle an ink cartridge, and, in fact, can help to make you money as well! Tons of companies are re-using and old ink cartridge by replacing the depleted ink containers with new ink, which takes over 80% less energy to do, saving the earth as well as the company’s wallet! Sending in an ink cartridge is the first step in being “green”. Dozens of companies now will actually pay for a used ink cartridge. An envelope is sent to you so you can send the ink cartridge and when they receive it, they send you check. The amount isn’t high, but recycling an ink cartridge multiple times a year can have that amount add up quickly.
Many stores offer drop off locations so you can just swing by and drop off your empty ink cartridge. Drop offs can save you a lot of time when you’re running errands! Many companies offer incentives to recycle and ink cartridge, such as through giving you a ream of paper or some other product for turning in your ink cartridge.
Many schools offer ink cartridge fund raisers, so you can get rid of your ink cartridge while at the same time help with the fundraiser. In an office, you can set up recycling bins to allow your coworkers to place their cartridges in the bin instead of in the trash. Then either you or the company can turn them in and can help your business to be green while making a little profit at the same time! There are tons of ways that you can recycle your ink cartridge, why not start today?
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