My Open Book

I was visiting my mom’s apartment last week and she wondered if I could put in a new HP 78 cartridge on her HP printer. It was the least I could do . My mother is 82 and doesn’t have much computer know-how . But afer I installed it, she was just going to toss the old cartridge into the waste basket . ” I’m going to recycle that for you ,” I told her. “That takes too much time,” was her reply.

Unfortunately, my mother’s attitude is similar to that of thousands of others. For most people, if you can’t see what happens to the garbage, you don’t worry about it. Folks tend to do something as long as it doesn’t take too much time. If the garbage company gives you a large container to store your recycling in , that’s easy. If you have to take it in somewhere or mail it in, many tend not to make the effort. Recycling needs to be made easy for the consumer .

Now I  always buy recycled HP compatible deskjet cartridges on the web.

Nearly everyone has at least one ink jet printer and often have more than one . Toner or Inkjet cartridges are consumables that can be used up in a few months for home use, and much more quickly in a business . Do you know what happens when we throw all those old ink jet cartidges and unused ink away? It fills up our landfills.

So what’s the best way to recycle an inkjet cartridge responsibly? The simplest way is to find a local charity that collects them. Suchorganizations get a few cents for each cartridge , so you help them out, while they return them to companies that have the ability to recycle and refill them and then sell them on the secondary market as remanufactured ink cartridges. This saves everyone a lot of money and keeps the cartridges in use and out of a landfill.

There are a few things you need to keep in mind . almost all of the brand name printer manufacturers offer something that appears to be a recycling program, but be sure to check out what happens to the old cartridges before you try this out . Many of the popular print cartridge producers like Lexmark and Kodak incinerate the cartridges. They do this to prevent them from getting refilled so that you have to buy their brand new cartridges . So figure it out first.

Reducing solid waste isn’t the only good thing that occurs by recycling old ink cartridges. You can also save tons of money. Name-brand inkjet cartridges sell for over 25 dollars per cartridge if you buy them new . Reconditioned ink cartridges can cost as little as $5-$10, saving up to 50%. Savings like that can really add up for companies large and small. My business uses  Phaser 8200 printer ink   that makes nice-looking copies. Unfortunatley the ink is expensive. But we save more than $150 a year buying the generic type.The best part is that you can also save the environment and even help out a good cause while cutting costs That’s a perfect way to do business any way you look at it.

Why don’t you do the same. You can get compatible, remanufactured   printer and copier cartridges for nearly every kind of printer. Be green. Buy generic ink jet cartridges.

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