Recycling Ink Toner Cartridges

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I don’t consider myself particularly green, but our family does what it can to reduce the impact on the environment. We’ve been using fluorescent light bulbs for years, I bring my own bags to the store when I shop and we recycle most everything we can if possible.

Papers, plastic and glass are a given, and we gather up our electronics about twice a year when they’re either broken or obsolete and bring those to the hazardous waste site (in our city they take electronics and things you can’t just ‘throw’ in the trash year round). But until just recently it never occurred to us to participate in toner cartridge recycling, we had always just thrown our used printer cartridges in the garbage (oops!).

So we’re starting to gather those up too now, and when we have at least eight empty ones we’re going to fill out the form on InkTechnologies.com, get a shipping tag and then send them off to their recycling center. It’s free for us, and another way we can leave a smaller footprint in the way we live.

This would be a really easy way for a small business office to recycle their toner cartridges as well. I remember when I was working in the insurance business with about a dozen printers in the office, we easily would have had eight or more empty cartridges a month that we would just toss.

Do you recycle your toner cartridges? If not, take a look at this service Ink Technologies provides at not cost to you!

Material consideration was given for the writing and editing of this post.  Published by Tammy Litke.