Are you still buying new ink cartridges for your printer when you run out? Did you know there is a franchise called Cartridge World that refills your empty cartridges, thereby diverting millions of plastic cartridges from our waste stream? And it saves you money too!
So the next time you need ink, refill those cartridges instead of buying new ones.
And while we are on the subject of computers, the amount of e-waste in the world cannot be ignored. With new technology developing at light speed, electronic waste is piling up faster than it can be dealt with. Recycling your electronics is a good thing to do, and your town should have an electronics waste program. But like all recycling, it is still energy intensive, and can only so much can be recycled.
There are not enough high-tech recycling plants to handle the waste and much of it is improperly recycled by backyard recyclers who burn it to mine the valuable metals within. This does not yield a good amount of metal and is extremely toxic to the people who do it and the environment. So recycling should only come after all efforts to REDUCE and REUSE have been made. Instead of getting the latest computer, cell phone, tv,or gadget, consider if you really need it, and weigh the facts of environmental/ human costs over the temporary kick out of a new purchase.
Cartridge World is 100 percent better than Staples or wb mason b/c they will refill most cartridges, but CW isn’t a certified recycler either so once the core is spent, it will not be recycled. But refill those cartridges as much as you can. For business and institutional use such as hospitals and schools and municipalities, NCS can solve all these problems. NCS “Commit to Zero” program makes sure not one cartridge will end up in a landfill.